Hi Lum, I see how they are using it from the ad.
It reminds me when I have discussions of people who buy organic chicken. What is organic chicken? Its chicken that eats organic food that is mostly some kind grain but chicken natural diets are not grain and include greens, seeds, insects and worms. It is a marketing tool that associates organic with healthy and if you eat organic chicken you are choosing a healthy chicken and eating healthy which may not be the case since we are feeding them something closer to cheerios than their natural food. When I see how they are using minimal, it is like that in which they are changing the meaning of the word to sell something which appears to be healthy. I am not a podiatrist but I do think there is something to having wider box shoes and less heel but I also think our ancestors if they walked bare foots lived in areas where there were minimal hard surfaces for our feet and they walked and ran on cushy soil which I think would play a part in a healthy foot. Minimal has a specific meaning but companies use advertisers and propagandist to change meaning in order to sell an idea. The original meaning of minimal is having less or what is necessary for function but they are using it to how associate it with low heel shoes with box toe. It is not a minimal shoe but a type of shoe and has nothing to do, in my opinion, with minimal. We have podiatric shoes available but why are they not minimal as well? Why isnt a cycling shoe minimal? We can make the case if I own 3 cycling shoes but if I have 1, I am still living minimal since no shoe is good at every function (walking in snow, hiking in woods, walking, running etc). It is marketing used to sell an idea and it probably requires alot more knowledge on our part to validate whether this choice of shoes is actual great for our feet. Like, not only would I have to know podiatrics, but anthropology for the origins of people, their footwear (if they wore something like shoes) and environment in which they flourished. I should be able to trust that my society that produces products that it is scientifically sound or to the best of its knowledge that these products will not hurt people since it is impossible to know everything. On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 6:56 PM, lum gim fong <john11.2...@gmail.com> wrote: > @Lee: > > Looking into it online, it seems that a minimalist shoe is defined as a > shoe that is a: > > protective and ornamental foot covering that has zero drop (no elevation > of heel), completely flat (level) support base from heel to toe, wide toe > box (allowing toes to splay freely and inline with metatarsals), flexible > sole, and is widest at the ends of the toes, allowing your feet to function > like a bare foot inside the shoe. > > Here is an example of a minimalist shoe vendor: https:// > naturalfootgear.com/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAl8rQBRDrARIsAEW_To-guXA0skc- > o85dg8s0BkZK4VXAmed4q7XmedrNUU1XifrSM94_efcaAkcaEALw_wcB > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
