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Nowadays, more and more unconventional shoes emerge, such as the shoes with arc-shaped soles. Well, they are not designed to cater to the Fashion trend. In fact, these are functional shoes helping in burning fat, strengthening muscles, and relieving pressure on knees and buttocks, etc. Research statistics show that, to some extent, these shoes do increase muscle movement, thus having certain health care function.

The physiological shoes, MBT shoes produced by Masai Group International Ltd are among these unconventional shoes. They are designed with a big arc in the sole. Generally speaking, the traditional shoes help people stand steadily. However, the shoes with big arcs do the opposite. The manufacturer said, when standing or walking wearing these kinds of shoes, more muscles would be brought into movement.

In modern society, obesity is considered as a chronic disease. It is the main cause of hypertension, diabetes and metabolism disorder. In Europe, nearly 1/3 of adults are suffering from overweight. The main reasons leading to obesity are lack of exercises and unhealthy diet.

Fortunately, the invention of MBT physiological shoes makes losing weight easier. When walking on the road wearing MBT shoes, the soft Masai Sensor does not only makes your walking comfortable and agreeable, also the unique soles enable more movement of muscles around joints, as the motor sensory system in your body responds accordingly to achieve enough balance on the arc soles. As a result, more fat is burnt. In addition, the pleasing walking experience may prolong your walking time unwittingly, thus curing obesity effectively.

The Human Performance Lab of University of Calgary, Canada, once conducted a research on MBT shoes. The director of the lab, Benno M. Nigg said, "MBT shoes are of great benefits. It will accompany you all the time, and as long as you wear it, your exercise will increase." He found that, wearing MBT shoes made the muscles around joints move more. As time goes, the wearers’ ability of keeping balance would be improved, he added. He also found, the oxygen consumption of MBT shoes wearer was 3% more than that of traditional shoes wearers. It means that, approximately, 3% more calories are burnt.

Cordula Stegen, a researcher at Masai Group International Ltd said, there were 39 researches on MBT shoes, and all proved to the public that these shoes represented healthier standing and walking styles. They suggest that you can wear these shoes to attend your daily activities, for a shorter period at the very beginning and then longer for gradual adaptation.