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Wearing high heels can cause many health risks, not only to your feet but to your entire body. This infographic points out some of the main problems that can occur when you insist on sacrificing health for fashion.

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High Heel Hazards

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Walking has long been known to be a great activity for maintaining health. This infographic from everybodywalk.org illustrates some of the benefits that are achieved by working regular walks into your routine. Some of the benefits are obvious and well known while others may surprise you.

Walk your way to better health.

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You may also be interested in: Free your feet: why running shoes may do more harm than good.

Anatomy of Walking

Here’s a fun infographic that illustrates the human body as a subway map. The various systems are color coded and broken down into the following:

• arterial
• CNS
• digestive
• lymphatic
• musculoskeletal (musculetal?)
• respiratory
• urinary
• venous

Credit for creating the infographic should apparently go to Sam Loman.

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The Human Body As A Subway Map

This infographic is a nice followup to the previous infographic we posted on the health problems that can result from not getting enough sleep.

On this image you’ll find outlined some of the negative effects of poor sleep and what can lead to poor sleep. It also offers suggestions to how you can get a better sleep. Some good napping information is also illustrated. Read this over and do yourself a favor by taking a nap. It’ll do you good.

Via visual.ly.

The Secret to Better Sleep

This infographic illustrates the relationship of posture to various health problems. The various problems it describes as often being affected by poor posture include back pain, foot pain, circulation issues, shoulder pain and even chronic fatigue.

Advice on improving posture is presented including posture during sitting, standing, walking, running, and sleeping.

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Thanks to Voltier Digital for putting this together, greatist.com for posting it, and Dr. Ben Fung for Tweeting about it.

The Ultimate Guide to Good Posture

This short infographic illustrates to potential dangers and long lasting effects of not getting enough sleep. Lack of sleep affects both body and mind. Interesting key points:

• lack of sleep makes you crave salty, fatty foods
• lack of sleep can make you drive like a drunk
• lack of sleep makes you more likely to get diabetes, have a heart attack, or increase risk of death

Sleep Or Die: The Health Effects of Lack of Sleep

Here’s an infographic created by Utica College that illustrates 10 points that you may not know about physical therapy. If you’re a PT then you already know most of this information but if you’re just learning about the field, perhaps it will be informative. It may also be useful if you’re considering a career as a physical therapist. For more on that topic please see this article: Becoming a Physical Therapist.

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You may also be interested in: How to become a physical therapist (infographic).

10 Things You May Not Know About Physical Therapy

Here’s an interesting infographic on the benefits of biking and the dangers of a sedentary lifestyle. The image outlines how much Americans drive, how much pollution of this driving causes and how biking instead of driving can have a dramatically beneficial effect.

Not only is biking better for the health of Americans and for the environment, the infographic also attempts to illustrate how biking could save America billions of dollars.

As always such infographics need to be taken with a grain of salt. However, I don’t think it’s too hard to imagine that less driving and more biking would benefit all of us.

Thanks to healthcaremanagementdegree.com for putting this on together.

Biking and Health: How Bikes Can Save Us

Fruit juices are often portrayed by their manufacturers as a healthy alternative to soda / pop. This infographic illustrates that this image is not only false but that they are often even less healthy; less healthy at least in turns of calories and sugar content. Even though it paints a simplistic picture of the situation, it’s interesting to see how much sugar is in these ‘fruit drinks’. And I thought colas had a ton of sugar!

Thanks to http://www.healthscience.net for creating this.

Soda' s Evil Twin: The Dangers of Fruit Drinks