Harvard professor Daniel Lieberman has ditched his trainers and started running barefoot. His research shows that barefoot runners, who tend to land on their forefoot, generate less impact shock than runners in sports shoes who land heel first. This makes barefoot running comfortable and could minimize runningrelated injuries. Read more here http://www.nature.com/news/2010/10012... and find the original research here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature08723

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