Andrea Waters-Rist, Western University (IMAGE)

University of Western Ontario

Andrea Waters-Rist, Western University

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Bio-archeologist Andrea Waters-Rist of Western University in London, Canada, has found that a combination of wearing Dutch wooden shoes ('klompen') and strenuous work caused bone chips in the feet of 19th-Century Dutch farmers. And, she says, it's a lesson that people who wear hard-soled, inflexible shoes today may be causing micro-damage to their feet bones.

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