My wife is a cosmetologist.  She cuts and styles hair for many people each day.  This requires her to be on her feet all day long.  She comes home at the end of a very long day and expresses how tired and worn out her feet are. It doesn’t help her that she has cracked and peeling feet. I feel [...]

I was enjoying some Mexican food with an avocado today, and having nothing better to do … started thinking about the avocado. It seems to be one of those foods people either love or hate. This (to me) delicious fruit has the added bonus of being able to produce a rich and extremely deep penetrating oil that is rich in [...]

I had a weird childhood memory float up to the surface of my brain the other day. It was of myself and my mother shopping for shoes (for her) back in the ’60s. This was before the big chain shoe stores, back when personal service was the way of the world. Anyway, what I remembered was that my mom would [...]

Your grandma or her grandma probably had a homemade cure for … well, for just about anything. Back before computers there weren’t even televisions, and before that laundry and dishes were all washed by hand, all food was made from scratch, and you just sometimes had to figure things out for yourself. So, granny would put a bit of clear [...]

“Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.” ~Helen Keller The olfactory system, which senses and processes odors, is associated with the limbic system, one of the oldest parts of the human brain. Among our senses, only taste and smell are chemical, and only smell has a unique tie [...]

You can never have too much … what? Chocolate? Money? Hugs? All true, but what I’m looking for is *information*. The more I learn about how one gets fissures (tiny cracks) in feet and especially heels, the more I realize hardly anyone pays attention to them. Just a little nuisance, right? Wrong. Heel fissures are painful, unsightly, and in many [...]

About ten years ago I started to learn a whole lot about diabetes. That’s when my then 10 year old son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. I was given about 30 lbs. of information to review and learn, and many web sites to use for research. And learn I did — but I focused on the things that were [...]

We spend a lot of blog space talking about feet and why it’s important to keep them safe and healthy and I do mention Heel Vitality and how much I love it. But what’s really important is what it can do for you. Heel Vitality is an advanced heel and foot therapy, solid in composition, and packaged in a convenient, [...]

Here it is, the middle of August, and even though I know Fall is right around the corner, I’m still enjoying wandering around in sandals and my bare feet whenever I can. It’s a good thing I always have more Heel Vitality on hand, because the way I abuse my feet, the heels would definitely be dry and cracked in [...]

I hate to say it, but in some parts of the country summer is almost over. Sure, we still have the blistering heat of August to keep us warm, but think about it … October is not so far away! What does that mean to you and your feet? Well, if like me you have spent the last few months [...]