For those of us with cold feet

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Tuesday January 22 09:13 AM EST

Your Shoes Are Cool!

(HealthScoutNews) -- White shoes are cool -- and not just because they

look good.

Researchers from the Department of Podiatry at the and White Clinic

and Memorial Hospital in Temple, Texas, tested the theory in a simple way. They

filled balloons with water and then put them into white shoes and black shoes.

They then subjected the shoes to an infrared heat lamp for 15- and 30-minute

periods.

After 15 minutes, the balloons in the black shoes were about 7 degrees

hotter than those in the white shoes. And after 30 minutes, reports the Journal

of the American Podiatric Medical Association, the balloons in the black shoes

were 11 degrees hotter than those in the white shoes.