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I envy those women who wear high heels regularly. Not only do their legs look great, they clearly have a higher threshold for pain (not to mention greater coordination) than I do. Far too used to clipping along in flats or (more often) runners, I’d have a better chance of learning how to walk on stilts than navigate a city street in heels.

Alex Hutchinson of the Globe and Mail recently posted a guest column on Weighty Matters. The blog's obesity doctor, Yoni Freedhoff, asked Hutchinson to answer the question "Can your treadmill really count calories?"

A walking coach explains how to resolve annoying-but-not-serious walking nuisances that might slow you down

Find out how upping your intensity, whether walking or running, can increase your calories burned.

Could barely-there footware fix your posture, back and joint problems? We try it on for size.