{"id":12662,"date":"2013-03-24T21:45:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T01:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=12662"},"modified":"2013-03-28T21:46:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T01:46:04","slug":"a-bloomberg-ban-on-heels-over-2-inches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/a-bloomberg-ban-on-heels-over-2-inches","title":{"rendered":"A Bloomberg ban on heels over 2 inches?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ivillage.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/preganancy_article_main\/stilettos.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Will New York Nanny Michael Bloomberg regulate women\u2019s pumps?<\/p>\n<p>Despite a court setback to Mayor Bloomberg\u2019s 16-ounce limit on soft drinks, Mayor Bloomberg has vowed to fight on in the name of reducing medical costs. \u201cIn a city. . . where health officials say the obesity epidemic is responsible for more than 5,000 deaths a year, the Mayor says his fight to make New Yorkers healthier will continue,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/kyle-drennen\/2013\/03\/12\/nbc-despite-overturned-nyc-soda-ban-bloombergs-fight-make-new-yorkers-#ixzz2OTcymhYi\">cheers<\/a>\u00a0NBC News.<\/p>\n<p>But where does the fight on health costs and personal liberty \u2013 a fundamental principle of Bloombergism \u00a0and Obamacare \u2013 end?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoctors say wearing heels higher than 2 inches can cause knee and back pain, shorten tendons, exacerbate arthritis and create all sorts of other problems,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20130324\/FEATURES03\/303240059\/Forget-the-pain-metro-Detroit-women-admit-they-get-a-kick-out-of-wearing-high-heels\">reports<\/a>\u00a0The Detroit Free Press on the popularity of 5-inch heels \u2013 a $20 billion industry in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHigh heel shoes contribute to my practice,\u201d says Dr. Paul Fortin, a Beaumont orthopedic surgeon. \u201cI have a lot of patients coming to see me with problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Is a Bloomberg ban on heels higher than 2 inches next? Can a Michelle Obama public campaign shaming retailers to take pumps off the shelves be far behind?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will New York Nanny Michael Bloomberg regulate women\u2019s pumps? Despite a court setback to Mayor Bloomberg\u2019s 16-ounce limit on soft drinks, Mayor Bloomberg has vowed to fight on in the name of reducing medical costs. \u201cIn a city. . . where health officials say the obesity epidemic is responsible for more than 5,000 deaths a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12664,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12662\/revisions\/12664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}