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Science Shows How Wearing No Socks With Shoes is Bad for You

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Sneaker retailer have put on their lab coats to discover if wearing no socks with shoes is actually bad for you.

We all know that wearing no socks with shoes has the potential to be disgusting, and now we have research dictating that rocking your kicks without socks can allow germs to thrive three times more than if you were wearing socks! In order to see how bacteria grows, size? ran swab tests on the soles, insoles and uppers of sneakers. The swabs were transferred to a petri dish and allowed to grow for five days, the results are frightening to anyone who likes to go sans socks.

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