Word: heeling
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...High heels pitch the body forward, so that walking becomes more like controlled falling and maintaining a healthy heel-to-toe stride is difficult. High heels also point the foot downward, which destabilizes the ankle and prevents it from flexing properly and absorbing the considerable shock--three times our body weight--of walking. Instead, that shock is transferred to the knee and hip joints, a condition that can aggravate arthritis...
...begun designing with one eye on fashion and the other keenly fixed on comfort and health. DKNY and Amalfi of Italy have crafted dress shoes with new technology like Insolia, a system invented by a podiatrist that shifts weight from the front of the shoe back to the heel, making high heels feel more like flats. At the same time, old standbys in the comfort-shoe industry, such as Birkenstock, Rockport and Ecco of Denmark, have stepped up their styles, boosting heel height or introducing trendy animal prints...
...comfort-shoe niche a step further by using technologies borrowed from the athletics and aerospace industries. Oh! Shoes, based in Portland, Ore., has been launched in a few test markets this fall, and features a multiple-contour foot bed and a six-part shock-absorption system in the heel. Company founder and CEO Greg Van Gasse says the heel technology took 1 1/2 years to perfect and reduces shock more than 30%. The shoes' aesthetic, however, still needs a little work...
...really high heels O.K.? You look as though you're trying too hard. O.K., maybe for a party. But in day-to-day life, high heels are ridiculous. The world is too serious. We have too many problems. I've never gone up to a three-inch or four-inch heel. I've seen models flip on the runway and break their ankles...
...Lucknow, India, once the seat of the Nawabs of Awadh?princes renowned for their sybarite lifestyle?is now a down-at-the-heel city 500 km southwest of Delhi. But it retains one royal passion: food. India's finest lamb dishes derive from Awadhi cuisine, the ultimate expression of which is the delicate Kakori kebab, a cigar-shaped delight produced in a hamlet of that name half an hour's drive from Lucknow. Local legend says it was created for a toothless prince, and it's easy to see why. Made from finely ground mutton, infused with cloves, cinnamon...