Our population is shrinking in height; in pain almost daily; injury is on the increase; we're missing work and we're low in body confidence. New research suggests that urbanisation, flattening out our natural landscape into concrete city landscapes, is to blame.
Today, MBT Physiological Footwear releases the "Flat is Bad" report: a health warning to the 48 million city dwellers in the UK.
More than 264,157 miles of the UK is concrete pavement. Flattened towns and cities make up just 14.5% of the British Isles, but 80% of Brits live within these concrete jungles. In fact, over one third (37%) of the population claim they never walk on any kind of natural surface on a daily basis.
MBT and independent experts alert us that urbanisation severely disrupts our body's natural balance, with a range of negative health impact
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