A former girlfriend who rarely wore hose had very thick dried skin on her
feet.
She was mostly vegetarian but ate fish maybe 3 times a month usually
swordfish
or tuna. Her diet was low in fat and especially low in omega 3 fatty acids
and of
course saturated fat except when she indulged in ice cream when in a
depressive
epidsode. I find it interesting that the incidence of both thick, dry,
cracked skin
on one's feet and depression is so much higher in women than men and that
men
on average tend to eat more meat especially beef. Hmmm.

Mark




Dori Wrote:

Actually, just the opposite is true.  As a kid, my next-door neighbor Maria
and I would do girl talk while slowly and painfully walking, barefoot, on
her family business' gravel lane in early spring.  Why?  To toughen our feet
for the summer.  Now that we're growups, we spend time and money to get our
feet baby soft.

Shoes and socks keep your feet moist.  One reason women have trouble with
dry feet is hose, which leave us with virtually no barrier from the
elements.  Men get to wear shoes and socks and, by and large, have soft
feet.  Don't believe me?  On the first day of sandal weather, look at
people's feet.  Isn't is frustrating that the men, who usually don't give a
rip, have baby-soft heels and the women have veritable hooves?  Now you know
why.

I'm sure if a man ever did this it would be in private (waaaaaay to girly)
but go the Dr. Scholl's section of the WalMart/KMart/whatever near you and
get the foot file.  I can't remember what it's called now, but it's not hard
to spot; it's white plastic, shaped much like a shoe horn, with black
sandpaper, basically, for filing your heels.  It works better than anything
I've ever used.

Dori Zook
Denver, CO

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