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Apr 3, 2007 · by John · In: Footcare Tagged: calluses, Fixing Your Feet, Happy Feet, toe nail fungus, toenail faungus, toenails

Last week I published the latest edition of my Fixing Your Feet e-zine. This link will take you there. The issue had two feature articles; the first is about A Home Remedy for Toe Nail Fungus. The second is Calluses: To Trim or Not To Trim. Both of these subjects are ones which I am a stickler on. I am a firm believer that many people today have toenail fungus and are either unaware of it or are avoiding dealing with it. I also talk quite a bit about the problems of …

Jan 27, 2007 · by John · In: Uncategorized Tagged: Fixing Your Feet, Foot Care, Happy Feet, john vonhof

It was an honor to have my Happy Feet blog chosen to the featured by Typepad. I use Typad to host the blog and every day they choose a blog to place in front of anyone who access their home page. The hits to the blog have increased by several hundred a week. If you are interested in starting your own blog, check out Typepad. Here is the link to show the feature page:Typepad Featured Blog - Happy Feet - January 14, 2007And here is what Typepad wrote: It's easy to take our feet for granted. Until …

Jan 14, 2007 · by John · In: Footcare, Footwear, Health, Sports, Travel Tagged: filing toenails, fitting shoes, Foot Care, Footcare, Happy Feet, healthy feet, shoe fit, socks, taking care of feet

Many of us take our feet for granted. We get up in the morning, wiggle our toes a bit, and slide on socks and shoes. For most of us, that’s it. Until we get ready for bed in the evening, we give them little more thought. If we change shoes and socks during the day, it may be for a workout, or for some kind of sport, or in the summer, to put on sandals. Unless we have some type of foot pain, we give our feet little thought. If we get an itch around our toes, we may check them …

Dec 30, 2006 · by John · In: Footcare, Footwear, Health, Sports, Travel Tagged: feet, Fixing Your Feet, Foot Care, Footcare, Happy Feet, new Year's resolutions

Over these last days of 2006 and the first days of 2007, many people will be making New Year’s resolutions. They will take many forms. Exercise more, eat less, work less, play more, spend more time with family, quit smoking, eat healthier, and more. Some are tied to what we like to do for fun. Hike more, run more, bike more, spend more time adventure racing, participate in more events, and become better at our sports. I would challenge you to make a fairly easy New Year’s …

Dec 18, 2006 · by John · In: Footcare, Footwear, Health, Sports, Travel Tagged: fitting shoes, Foot Care, Footwear, Happy Feet, insoles, shoe fit

Over the past 10 years, I have written extensively about foot care and footwear—but it has been in the context of running, triathlons, hiking, backpacking, adventure racing, and fastpacking. Feedback from readers of my book Fixing Your Feet, my Fixing Your Feet newsletter, and this Happy Feet blog has shown me that many readers are not athletes in those sports. They may be walkers, soldiers, dancers, climbers, golfers, or play field or court sports. The one common denominator is they too rely …

Nov 24, 2006 · by John · In: Footcare, Footwear, Health, Sports, Travel Tagged: blistershield, bodyglide, dirty girl gaiters, engo, engo performance patches, Fixing Your Feet, Foot Care, Footcare, Happy Feet, hydropel, injinji tetrasocks, insoles, kinesio tape, kinesio-tex tape, shockdoctor insoles, smartwool socks, sofsole insoles, spenco blister pads, spenco quikstik, spenco sports pads, teco socks, toe socks, zeasorb powder, zombierunner

How about being nice to your feet this Christmas and giving them a gift. In fact, be nice to a freind and give them a gift for happy feet. Here are a few suggestions. These can easily be found through a Google search—but many of the items are available at ZombieRunner.com (marked with an *).A copy of the 4th edition of Fixing Your Feet: Prevention and Treatments for Athletes. If you have the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd edition - you are out of date. A copy of my Happy Feet booklet. A short 36 page …

Aug 20, 2006 · by John · In: Footcare, Footwear, Health, Sports, Travel Tagged: blisters, Fixing Your Feet, Foot Care, Footcare, Happy Feet, heel pain, lancing blisters

Every five to seven days I publish a new post on this Happy Feet blog. These are fairly short posts, usually on one subject related to foot care - usually around 400-500 words. What some of you may not know is that every month I publish my Fixing Your Feet Blog. It is a much longer blog post, with many different topics. In fact today's blog is almost 4000 words! Below are two short paragraphs from today's Fixing Your Feet blog. I encourage you to read about it's content and …

Jun 15, 2006 · by John · In: Footcare Tagged: blisters, foot blisters, Foot Care, Footcare, Happy Feet, infected blisters, toxic shock syndrome

Blister on the feet are very common, whether on children, teens, or adults. They can occur from all types of footwear in all types of situations, from everyday activities to extreme sports. Occasionally, blister go bad. Several years ago Hillary Swank was filming Million Dollar Baby and while training, developed a blister on one of her feet. She ignored it and it festered into a raging infection. Hillary ended up in the hospital for treatment. Ignoring the simple …

Mar 15, 2006 · by John · In: Footcare, Footwear, Sports, Travel Tagged: Fixing Your Feet, foot care tips, Happy Feet

This weekend is the LA Marathon. If you are running or will be in the area, I am doing two seminars at the Expo at the Convention Center - one Friday afternoon and one Saturday morning. My sessions are titled, Feet Don't Fail Me Now - Foot Care Tips for Marathonrers. I'd love for some of my readers to stop by and chat. Pick up a tips sheet and look at copies of Fixing Your Feet and Happy Feet, my two publications for people who love their feet. You can find …

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Dec 29, 2005 · by John · In: Footcare, Footwear, Health, Sports, Travel Tagged: feet, Foot Care, Footcare, Happy Feet, healthy feet

A recent statistic at Foot.com asked an interesting question: “Did you the know average person will walk more than 115,000 miles in a lifetime, which is enough to walk the circumference of the earth four times over? Additionally, the average person does not wear a properly fitting or comfortable shoe.” An additional statistic is that the average person takes under 5000 steps per day. Two days short of ringing in 2006, I have two questions. The first is, “How for did you walk …

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