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Do High Heels Make Women Crazy?
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Posted By:
Maegan
in Tampa, FL - USA
Jul 26, 2005
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I heard about this on the radio this morning, and was looking into it a little further. I found some websites that showed high heels from the 1800s, but nothing earlier. Maybe I just didn't look hard enough, but it makes me wonder if THIS guy has been wearing heels!
Link to Article.
An excerpt:
MALMO(SWEDEN): The well-heeled might have cause for alarm. A scientist in Sweden says wearing high heels can lead to mental disorders, and has drawn alarming parallels between stilettos and schizophrenia among women.
Jarl Flensmark says high heels cause their wearers to tense their calves in a way that normal walking never does. That could prevent neuro-receptors in the calf muscles from triggering release of dopamine, a compound necessary for mental well-being.
“During walking, synchronised stimuli from mechano-receptors in the lower extremities increase activity in cerebellothalamo-cortico-cerebellar loops through their action on NMDA-receptors,” Flensmark wrote in a recent paper in the journal Medical Hypotheses. “Using heeled shoes leads to weaker stimulation of the loops. Reduced cortical activity changes dopaminergic function, which involves the basal gangliathalamo-cortical-nigro-basal ganglia loops,” he said.
So, anyone here know a ton too much about shoes & heels?
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Citizen Premier
in spite of public outcry
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 | 08:59 AM
I don't think he was saying that high heels are the only cause of schizophrenia, just a potential cause.
He sold me when he said "Reduced cortical activity changes dopaminergic function, which involves the basal gangliathalamo-cortical-nigro-basal ganglia loops." |
Citizen Premier
in spite of public outcry
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 | 09:01 AM
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Maegan
in Tampa, FL - USA
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 | 10:22 AM
Being diagnosed and being treated are two different things. Besides, I find most non-modern diagnosis suspect, simply b/c things have changed so much - 150 years ago a woman might have been thought to have a heart condition that caused her death, and it actually have been breast cancer.
So a 'diagnosis' of schizophrenia might not have been recognized as such, and say, out of 10 actual cases of schizophrenia only half of them were diagnosed by a medical person as such (thought I'm sure with a different name), while the other 5 were given a diagnosis of any other diseases or ailments. |
metrovoyeur
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Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 | 10:03 PM
I don't think wearing high heels publicly implies or causes any mental disorder. It can only hurt your feet and legs, that is for sure. I have seen and sat beside hundreds of women wearing high heels and I can only say they are more confident feeling that their feet is arched.
See my narrated and illustrated weblog of women wearing high heels going to work, supermarket, bus stop and much more places.
Illustrated and narrated street women high heel shoes weblog |
Heel Linda
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Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 | 08:05 AM
Do high heels make woman crazy? I do think it is. Like my older sister, while she is in high school, she showed no interest in high heels. However, when she was admitted into the college, she bought quiet a few high heels, it soon became a part of her life, I do think every woman like high heels. |
oyna
in newyork
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Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 | 02:55 AM
They fell out of favour in the 1500's, then came back with such a vengeance in the 1600's that eventually one of the French kings had to set a limit on the height |
oyunlar
in york
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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 | 01:38 PM
A family friend of ours has been wearing high heels for most of her life, and I can attest to Maegan's story: the lady I'm talking about has to buy high-heeled slippers too, exactly for the same reason. |
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