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I have the idea that running shoes are based on a kind of cult idea - that our feet are flawed and we need shoes to correct those flaws. The shoe companies are in the business of selling shoes. But there's no evidence from running shoe manufacturers that they're right. There's no scientific data that running shoes reduce injury.

~Christopher Mcdougall

Topics: Based Business Companies Correct Cult Data Evidence Feet Flawed Flaws Idea Injury Kind Manufacturers Need Our Reduce Right Running Scientific Selling Shoe Shoes Those

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Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher.

~Christopher Mcdougall

Topics: Behavior Bizarre Charles Darwin Even Found Human Idea Life Ring Saving Stranger Total

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We're constantly told that running will ruin our knees and outrage our hearts, but for nearly all of human existence, it was associated with freedom, vitality, and eternal youth.

~Christopher Mcdougall

Topics: Associated Constantly Eternal Existence Freedom Hearts Human Human Existence Knees Nearly Our Outrage Ruin Running Vitality Will Youth

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For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion.

~Christopher Mcdougall

Topics: Across Ancestors Because Could Exhaustion Heat Mammals Million Million Years Nearly Other Our Planet Run Spread Survived Thrive Years

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Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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