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ESL / EFL Cloze Activity on High Heels by Sean Banville

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Scientists have found out that women who high-heel shoes make the calf muscles . The heels also give many women pain in their legs when they take them off and walk. The researchers different women aged between 20 and 50 who wore heels that were 5cm or higher. The research, which a two-year period, also at women who never wore high heels. The research team used ultrasound to the length of the fibres in the calf . Their results showed that the muscle fibres of high-heel were 13 per cent shorter than those in the non-high-heel-wearing women. Lead researcher Professor Marco Narci said: "This the hypothesis that when you the muscle in a shorter position, the fibres become shorter.”

The researchers also found that women who wore high heels suffered more muscle and pains when they took their shoes off. This is because their muscles are being overstretched for long and do not have time to . Professor Narci said it was harder for women to their feet out when they took their shoes off. He did women to do simple stretching exercises to the pain. "If you stand on your tip toes and lower your heels up and down again it will stretch out the tendons making it to walk without heels,” he said. He did not suggest women stop wearing high heels but recommended wearing flat shoes a little more ."Fashion is intended to be uncomfortable and none of the women in the planned to give up their high heels," he said.



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