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Need new footwear? There's a prescription for that

IT'S ESTIMATED you'll walk 120,000km over your lifetime – enough to go around the world three times.

For those doing the Walk1200km challenge, that distance is likely to be even greater.

Yet despite the central role feet play in our lives, few people give them the care and attention they deserve.

“I think you've got to look at how much you want to enjoy walking,” says Merivale Podiatry owner

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