High Heels Shorten Women's Leg Muscles

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Question 1.

a. False. “Scientists have found out that women who wear high-heel shoes make the calf muscles shorter.”

b. False. “The researchers also found that women who regularly wore high heels suffered more muscle aches and pains when they took their shoes off.”

c. False. “. He did advise women to do simple stretching exercises to relieve 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 easier to walk without heels.”

d. True. “none of the women in the study planned to give up their high heels,"

Question 2.

a. They examined women between 20 and 50 who often wore 5 cm or higher heel shoes and women who didn´t wear high heel shoes.They used a special technique using sounds to test their leg muscles.

b. The researchers found that women who wear high heel shoes had more pains in their muscles when they take them off. As a result of the habit of wearing such shoes, their leg muscles were shorter than those of women who wear flat shoes.

Question 3.

a. found out / to find out b. lead c. hard/harder

Question 4.

a. “It´s harder for women to stretch their feet out when they take their shoes off.“

b. They are overstretching their muscles for long periods.

c. If she hadn´t worn high heel shoes, she wouldn’t have suffered muscle aches and pains.