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...results over time are not glamorous. According to Dr. Carol Frey, an orthopedic surgeon in Manhattan Beach, Calif., 76% of American women suffer from foot deformities or afflictions such as bunions, hammertoes, pinched nerves, calluses and ingrown toenails as a result of wearing inappropriate shoes. More than 50% of U.S. women are limping around with a bunion--a bony bump at the joint of the big toe. Compare that with a rate of less than 10% for men and 5% among unshod populations like Fiji Islanders. "There's nothing wrong with the human foot," says Frey. "It does not need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BODY & MIND: Healthy Heels | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

...ensemble of a Victoria's Secret model. But shoes, Evidente explains, can be hot in and of themselves. And the right shoe can make a woman look better. "You can almost spot a foot and not only know her size but what would look good: something to camouflage the bunion or something that accentuates a long, sexy leg," Evidente says. One of his many skills is being able to talk about feet in ways that don't seem creepy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Footloose in fashion | 8/28/2003 | See Source »

...Thatcher's pinchpenny Britain. With its double-edged title and its tone of bitter whimsy, A Private Function asks to be taken as a hymn to the meanness of the human spirit, in ) which the one decent soul is "a pathetic cringing nancy" to his wife and a "festering, bunion-scraping little pillock" to the local GP. The cheery camaraderie of Britain's postwar Ealing comedies has given way to pig-eat-pig biliousness--which would be fine if Bennett (An Englishman Abroad) and Mowbray did not engage in something like laugh rationing. This is an Animal Farm that could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Uneasy Riders and a Pig | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

...York City area had to see a second doctor if they wanted their health insurance plans to pay for operations. In 19% of the cases, would-be patients got negative second opinions, and nearly two-thirds of them did not have surgery. Among the procedures frequently deemed unnecessary: bunion removal, hysterectomies, prostate surgery and knee operations. Judging by the experience of one union's health fund, every $1 spent for fees and administrative expenses in the program should save $2.63 in sick pay and hospital costs. Says McCarthy: "Every time a person was referred for a second opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules: Feb. 16, 1981 | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

More people were persuaded to buy the mythical Pro Gro plant fertilizer when the commercial stressed that it contained protein-though protein is of absolutely no help to plants. A bunion remedy, D-Corn, drew more buyer interest when it was touted as having four times as much methylglyoxal as its competition; yet no evidence was offered to support the notion that increasing the amount of methylglyoxal might be in the least beneficial. When Lite Bite Peaches were outweighed on a scale by a rival brand, the consumer panel got the deliberately misleading-but overwhelmingly persuasive-impression that Lite Bite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Truth Doesn't Sell | 5/14/1973 | See Source »

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