Among the various side effects emerging from weight-loss injections, one stands out for its peculiarity—introducing what’s now being dubbed as ‘Mounjaro feet.’

For some individuals, shedding those unwanted pounds and dropping a dress size come with an unexpected price: the onset of painful foot issues.

Jatender Chaggar, a leading foot health practitioner at the Foot-Map clinic, reports a notable four percent uptick in cases. These patients are experiencing significant ‘foot fat’ depletion as a consequence of using GLP-1 weight-loss drugs.

Imagine the cushion of fat on the sole of your foot deflating, akin to letting air out of a tire, which increases stress on the balls of the feet and toes.

While concrete evidence linking GLP-1 medications to direct foot ailments is lacking, the sweeping physical transformations that accompany major weight loss—such as diminished cushioning from fat pads, shifts in muscle tone, and altered pressure distribution—can indeed contribute to discomfort and increased stress on particular foot zones.

So if you’ve lost weight on the shots and are struggling in your mules this summer, that might be why.

This loss of padding can also be exacerbated by hormonal shifts in menopause and reduced collagen from aging. Leading podiatrist Margaret Dabbs warns: ‘As we age, the fat pads in our feet can migrate and become thinner and GLP-1s may potentially reduce soft tissue support further. This natural cushioning normally helps absorb impact when walking and supports the foot structure.’

Which is why many of us – particularly when wearing high heels – find it more tiring being on our feet as we get older.

So, what is the best way to ease Mounjaro or Meno Foot without resigning yourself to a life of slippers? Here’s what our experts advise…

1. Get support

Dabbs says, ‘There is not just one cause of heel or metatarsal pain [a burning or tingling sensation in the ball of the foot], and your first step should be to book an appointment with a podiatrist for a full diagnostic assessment.’ 

Custom orthotics – specially made shoe inserts designed to support the foot and provide shock absorption – are also worth investing in. 

2. Fill your feet

‘The plantar fat pads act as shock absorbers,’ says Dr Manav Bawa, medical director of Time Clinic. ‘So when that cushioning reduces, patients may experience increased pressure in the heel and forefoot, tenderness on hard surfaces, or a sensation that their feet tire more quickly.

‘In some cases, it can even unmask or worsen underlying issues such as metatarsalgia [pain in the ball of the foot] or plantar fasciitis [stabbing pain on the bottom of the heel linked to repetitive strain].’

Dermal filler, such as Juvéderm, can replace cushioning. Often known as a ‘Loub Job’ – a phrase inspired by Christian Louboutin heels – filler is injected into the heel and ball of the foot to improve shock absorption. The results can last six to 12 months, with maintenance treatments once or twice a year.

Filler in the feet must be administered conservatively by an injector with strong anatomical knowledge, says aesthetic doctor Dr Sophie Shotter, ‘because the tissues are thinner and there are important blood vessels and structures that can be at risk if product is placed incorrectly.’

She adds: ‘It’s also important to understand that addressing volume loss doesn’t change the underlying cause, so maintaining a stable weight and wearing supportive footwear is just as important.’

Chaggar recommends supportive running shoes such as the Asics Gel-Kayano 32 ($165) or Metaspeed Sky Tokyo ($270).

3. Keep fit

To ease ‘Mounjaro feet’, Dabbs recommends foot exercises twice a day. These reduce stiffness, improve circulation, maintain joint flexibility and strength. Try ten reps for each foot, which only takes three to five minutes.

• Toe raises/heel raises: Stand with feet hip-width apart. Slowly lift your heels off the ground, balancing on your toes for three seconds, then lower.
• Toe curls: Sit on a chair, place a towel on the floor, and try to scrunch it toward you with your toes. Hold the position for three seconds then relax.
• Ankle circles: Sit or lie down. Lift one foot and slowly rotate the ankle clockwise, then counterclockwise.
• Heel-to-toe walking: Walk in a straight line, placing your heel directly in front of the toes of the other foot each step.
• Resistance band exercises: Loop a resistance band around the ball of your foot. Push your foot away (plantarflexion) or pull it toward you (dorsiflexion).
• Calf stretch/Achilles stretch: Stand facing a wall, one foot behind the other, heel on the ground. Lean forward to stretch the back leg. Hold for five seconds and then alternate.

4. Cream matters

‘Skin on our feet is 15 times thicker than on other parts of the body, which is why foot cream is recommended,’ says Dabbs.

‘Applying it with a short massage helps circulation, bringing nutrients to the area and relieving muscle tension.’

Pedicurist Bastien Gonzalez says fat pads can be plumped with massage.

Try Margaret Dabbs London Miracle Foot Cream, The Body Shop Peppermint Invigorating Foot Cream and Révérence de Bastien Le Baume.

5. Audit your socks

‘When fat pads thin out, the nerves on top of the foot become hypersensitive,’ points out Chaggar.

‘Switch to seamless, moisture-wicking socks to reduce friction and prevent the burning sensations (paresthesia) often triggered by fabric rubbing against the skin.’

Try bamboo ankle socks to help minimize friction and irritation.

ICE has taken action by placing a detainer on an illegal immigrant linked to a shocking event in Nashville where a vehicle rammed into a group of people, leaving four injured.

According to the Nashville police, Felipe Alvarado Hernandez, age 47, was apprehended on June 13. He allegedly drove his pickup truck onto a Nashville sidewalk, striking four pedestrians while attempting to make a left turn. Two victims were left in need of wheelchairs.

Following the incident, Hernandez faced several charges, including leaving the scene of an accident and failing to provide necessary information or aid. Additionally, he was charged for not filing an accident report, violating financial responsibility with injury, and operating a vehicle with a revoked license. His arrest came on July 28, more than a month after the hit-and-run.

A Department of Homeland Security official told News Media that ICE New Orleans has lodged a detainer for Hernandez recently after he was charged.

The official said that one of the victims was still hospitalized at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Burn Unit as of July 29.

“When illegal aliens break our laws and endanger our communities, ICE will work with our law enforcement partners to ensure they face the consequences of their actions. Our officers remain committed to enforcing the law professionally, protecting the public, and upholding the trust placed in us by the American people,” said ERO New Orleans acting Field Office Director Scott Ladwig.

According to DHS, Hernandez entered the country at an unknown date and location. He agreed to leave the country on Jan. 5, 2004, after Michigan’s Roseville Police Department referred him to ICE following an arrest on a retail fraud charge that was later dropped.

License plate reader technology was used on the pickup truck Hernandez was driving in order to get his information.

In a tense courtroom exchange Monday, the defense attorney for Lindsay Clancy interrogated her psychiatrist, challenging the adequacy and precision of the mental health care she received. The investigation aimed to cast doubt on the mental health system’s handling of the Massachusetts mother’s condition in the critical months prior to the tragic deaths of her three young children.

Defense attorney Kevin Reddington honed in on Dr. Jennifer Tufts’ reliance on brief, 25-minute virtual consultations, which left little time for substantial talk therapy. Furthermore, Reddington scrutinized the efficiency of her form-filling practices and the assortment of medications she prescribed, despite Clancy expressing side effects and apprehension regarding pharmaceutical treatments.

Reddington painted a picture of Clancy’s mental healthcare as insufficient and mechanized, diverging from what is typically expected within U.S. mental health services. At one juncture, Reddington insinuated that Tufts operated like a checklist-driven “robot,” lacking genuine concern for her patient’s worsening state.

He directly questioned the psychiatrist’s actions, asking, “What did you do? You had a woman who was telling you she felt hopeless,” referring to an appointment approximately two months before the fatal incident.

In response, Dr. Tufts maintained, “I told her that this was something we could address, that there was hope, that there are treatments, that there are different types of programs,” assuring that Clancy knew there were still paths forward and reasons to remain hopeful.

“Did you ever suggest to her that ‘maybe you should come in and see me, rather than on the computer?’” Reddington asked.

“Talking to her over the video didn’t seem like an issue. It didn’t seem like there was something I was missing,” Tufts replied.

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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988.

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Clancy’s camp says she tried everything to get help

Clancy, 35, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the deaths of Callan, Dawson and Cora Clancy, who ranged from 8 months to 5 years old. They were found in the basement of the family’s home in coastal Duxbury, Massachusetts, where their mother was lying in the yard. She had jumped out a second-story window and remains paralyzed from the waist down.

Prosecutors argue that the former labor and delivery nurse was an intentional killer who connived to get her husband out of the house, then strangled the children with exercise bands on Jan. 24, 2023. Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham has urged jurors not to view the trial as “a public debate about women’s mental health and how the medical system treats women.”

Clancy’s attorneys don’t dispute that she killed the children. But they say she shouldn’t be held criminally responsible because she was mentally ill, believing that she heard voices ordering her to take the children’s lives and her own.

The defense contends that she was in the grip of bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis, a rare postpregnancy condition that can alter women’s sense of reality. A forensic psychiatrist diagnosed her with those conditions after the killings.

Her attorneys say Clancy did everything she could to seek help: She turned to multiple outpatient providers, tried various drugs they prescribed, called a suicide hotline, went to an emergency room, and approached but wasn’t accepted into a hospital-based, full-day treatment program for women with postpregnancy mental health problems. Clancy then even checked herself into a psychiatric hospital for several days.

Rather than improving, her condition worsened on the ever-remixed cocktail of psychiatric medications, some of them problematic for bipolar patients, her attorneys and family say. Tufts noted that it can be difficult to tell whether such conditions as depression are continuing because of a medicine or despite it.

Psychiatrist says Clancy never indicated she’d harm her kids

Tufts saw Clancy, via video, from September 2022 until the day before the killings. Her diagnosis: generalized anxiety disorder and an adjustment disorder with depressed mood.

The psychiatrist testified that Clancy never told her about manic episodes, a criterion for bipolar diagnoses, nor about hearing voices or having other signs of psychosis.

Clancy at times said she was “close” to feeling suicidal, hopeless or like she was going to die, Tufts recalled. But she said Clancy denied having a plan to take her own life or harm anyone else and never revealed — as the defense says she did to her husband — that she had thoughts about harming the children.

“I would have been very concerned if I had heard that,” Tufts said.

Clancy is suing Tufts and other practitioners in civil court.

“I do not believe that I’ve been negligent,” Tufts testified in the criminal trial Monday as Reddington questioned how much experience she had treating postpregnancy conditions before Clancy came to her. Tufts finished her psychiatric residency training in July 2022 and joined a private practice the month before Clancy’s first appointment.

Nurse-practitioner testifies about treating Clancy

As Tufts left court after two days of testimony, Clancy sat still in her wheelchair with her knitted hands to her face, looking downward at the defense table.

Prosecutors went on to question psychiatric nurse-practitioner and nurse midwife Julie Paul, a pregnancy and postpregnancy specialist whom Clancy consulted briefly in November 2022. Their interactions spanned about 10 days, as Paul was leaving for another job.

Paul testified that Clancy came to her with concerns about medications she’d been using for sleep, and that led to a few reshufflings as Clancy continued reporting various symptoms and seeking new solutions by the day. Trial-and-error switching isn’t unusual in psychiatry, said Paul, who also said Clancy never told her of any thoughts of harming herself or her children or having any hallucinations.

Reddington will have his chance to question Paul on Tuesday.

If convicted of murder, Clancy faces life in prison without parole. If found not guilty due to a lack of criminal responsibility, she would be committed to a state mental health facility.

Amid growing concerns over inclusivity and fairness, New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani has chosen a former judge, currently embroiled in controversy, to join his Advisory Committee on the Judiciary. Accusations now swirl around this appointment, hinting at a broader issue lurking within an established non-profit organization.

Last month, Milton Tingling was welcomed onto the committee with high hopes, a move underscored by his simultaneous role as the board chair for the West Harlem Development Corporation (WHDC). However, WHDC finds itself under scrutiny following allegations against its executive director, Zaed Ramadan, over discriminatory practices.

A lawsuit brought forward by Vince Morgan, a former board member, paints a troubling picture of Ramadan’s behavior. The legal complaint highlights alleged incidents of “racist, antisemitic, and otherwise ethnically offensive remarks,” which reportedly reflect a deeper pattern of misconduct within the organization.

The situation seemed to escalate following the tragic events of October 7, 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel. According to the lawsuit, days after the incident, Ramadan convened a strategic discussion in Morgan’s office. This meeting included significant figures such as New York State Assemblyman Charles Fall and a Brooklyn imam, as they deliberated on how WHDC could respond to the incident.

The gathering’s imam stirred controversy due to his questionable past. Identified as Siraj Wahhaj, he has previously drawn attention, once listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. His earlier calls for “jihad” against New York City in the early 2000s further complicate the current scenario, raising eyebrows about the council’s future direction.

After the meeting about the Oct. 7 attacks, which left 1,200 people dead, “Ramadan informed plaintiff he had become very skilled at using language that would pass the Jewish community standards for rhetoric considered antisemitic, and he devised special code words to use so his anti-Israeli statements and statements about Jews could not be directly described as antisemitic, although the statements were made to highlight Jewish greed and attempt to control and manipulate New York politics,” the lawsuit states.

In another incident, Ramadan — also a board member of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) in New York City — also allegedly “spent considerable time describing how [former] Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine and his staff conspired against him in the past to prove why he believes the Jews unfairly control New York against the interest of other religion and ethnic groups,” the lawsuit says. Levine is now New York City Comptroller.

Morgan, ex-director of a WHDC housing program providing support to affordable housing co-ops in West Harlem is African American, and says he was uncomfortable with Ramadan’s alleged comments about Jews and other minorities, filing a whistleblower complaint against Ramadan to Tingling in February 2024. He also made recordings of his boss, which have also been supplied to The Post,  later telling the Columbia Spectator: “I started recording him, because I was like, I don’t think people would believe me if I said this, one. Two, all he has to do is deny it.”

Ramadan’s comments also allegedly included making statements about how “Jews stole Palestinian land” and allegedly used “graphic descriptions of rape and violence perpetrated…against Palestinian women and children, including cutting of body parts by Israeli soldiers whom he described as ruthless Jewish oppressors,” according to court papers.

But Tingling is accused of ignoring Morgan’s complaints, and he claims he even “retaliated against him by sending threatening correspondence and undermining his authority within the organization,” in the lawsuit.

Morgan also claims he was also prevented from doing his job advising Housing Development Finance Corporation owners.

“Tingling’s failure to address these antisemitic and racist rantings caused plaintiff untold hardship because he had to continue to listen to these tormenting racists’ language despite his protests,” the court papers state.

Neither Ramadan or Tingling returned The Post’s requests for comment. The West Harlem Development Corporation denied all the allegations brought forward by Morgan in their court filing.

In May 2024, Larry English, former chair of Community Board 9, was appointed to the board and suggested hiring outside counsel to probe Morgan’s complaints, but the motion was dismissed, court papers say.

In other recordings, Ramadan also allegedly called Ross Frommer, the vice president for government and community affairs for Columbia University, which provides tens of millions in funding for the WHDC to aid the local community, “a messy f—ing Zionist Jewish guy who has done nothing in two decades for Washington Heights,” according to court papers.

Tingling, who served on the New York County Supreme Court until he retired in 2014, is the Manhattan County Clerk.

In a statement announcing the18  members of the Mayor’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary, including Tingling, Mamdani said: “The Committee will help ensure that our judicial system reflects the city it serves, applies the rule of law universally and does so without favor.”

The panel has already faced criticisms for not representing the Jewish community with any of its appointees.

Morgan was fired in January 2025. In court papers he claimed, “plaintiff’s termination was due in part to his questions regarding abuse of finances and procedures.”

Luciano Frattolin, once celebrated for his success with the organic coffee brand Gambella, has been condemned for a grievous crime: the murder of his young daughter. The court found him guilty of drowning his nine-year-old in a swamp, revealing a startling bid for vengeance against his former spouse.

The 46-year-old Montreal native faced swift justice on Monday, with the jury convicting him of both second-degree murder and clandestine disposal of a body. The poignant case revolves around Melina, his daughter, whose tragic demise was unraveled last year, as reported by the New York Post.

Frattolin reportedly embarked on a trip during the summer of 2025, whisking Melina across the Northeastern United States. Prosecutors alleged that this excursion concealed a sinister intent—a plot to end his daughter’s life and evade the financial obligations of child support.

The grim discovery of Melina’s remains on July 19, 2025, shocked the serene town of Ticonderoga, New York, where her body lay concealed under a log in a secluded pond.

“Melina’s short life came to a violent end,” the Essex County District Attorney reflected during emotional closing arguments. “Her once tidy, braided hair was caked in mud and grass, a silent testament to the tragedy she endured.”

Frattolin shook his head as the prosecutor spoke and showed no remorse for what had happened to his daughter, the Post reports.

Jurors at the New Jersey courthouse then spent only about an hour deliberating before they handed down their verdict. 

Frattolin has maintained that his daughter was mysteriously kidnapped the night of her death. 

He had called authorities at around 9.30pm on July 19, 2025 from Lake George, New York, claiming Melina was forced into a white van.

Frattolin also said he chased the van for 15 to 20 minutes before he decided to stop in Warren County to make the call. 

The report sparked a massive manhunt for Melina, as law enforcement officers stopped white vans throughout the region. 

At first, prosecutors said Frattolin cooperated with the investigators by allowing them to search his vehicle and cellphone as well as Melina’s phone.

But Frattolin changed his story as investigators uncovered new evidence in the case.

According to the prosecution, what officers had expected to be a brief drive to the alleged abduction site instead took hours, with Frattolin repeatedly redirecting officers.

At one point, he even allegedly told the cops they traveled too far north on Interstate 87 when they approached Exit 28 – though his cellphone and vehicle data placed Frattolin in the area, where he stayed for nearly an hour.

When he was then questioned about the stop, Frattolin allegedly told investigators that he and Melina had been looking for a place to hike or swim.

Investigators also noted that Frattolin told them he had been unable to access his cellphone immediately after the abduction because it had fallen between the seats of his rental car.

Yet prosecutors said there is evidence showing he had texted the girl’s mother, Kali Galanis, that Melina would be home in 10 minutes.

Galanis, though, had already become worried about her daughter.

She had been tracking the young girl through her phone, but after Melina and Frattolin stopped at a McDonald’s in Saratoga Springs earlier in the night, she lost access.

Authorities later discovered that the McDonald’s was the last place the nine-year-old girl’s phone showed any activity.

Video footage from the restaurant also allegedly showed Frattolin wearing different clothes than what he was seen donning after reporting his daughter missing. 

Officers later located his wet clothes and shoes in a garbage bag off of I-87.

When the coffee guru was then questioned about Melina’s disappearance, he admitted it ‘would’ve been easier’ to murder the young girl overseas, either in Italy or Ethiopia, New York State Police investigator Daniel Mauro testified during the trial.

Frattolin now faces life in prison. He is due to be sentenced on October 14.

This is a breaking news story and will be updated.

A woman in Georgia experienced a terrifying ordeal during her Sunday morning workout when a stranger allegedly tried to run her down multiple times just after she had greeted him.

This frightening incident occurred on July 19 at the Sedgefield Apartments in Cobb County. The woman was engaging in her usual exercise routine when she encountered 21-year-old Jesse Allen Davis, as detailed in a criminal warrant obtained by News Media.

Though unfamiliar with Davis, the woman exchanged a “brief, polite greeting” with him, as described in the authorities’ warrant.

Minutes later, Davis allegedly entered his nearby 2004 Nissan Sentra, started the vehicle, and accelerated toward the woman, apparently intending to hit her, according to the warrant’s details.

The progression of this shocking event was halted when another driver intervened by blocking Davis’ path, which prevented him from allegedly injuring the woman.

The woman fled toward her residence, but Davis allegedly pursued her in his vehicle to the area of Commons Lane before intentionally driving toward her a second time.

She was forced to run onto a sidewalk and seek cover behind a dumpster to avoid being struck, according to the warrant.

But her alleged attacker kept coming.

While the woman remained hidden, Davis allegedly yelled profanities, maneuvered the vehicle and attempted to strike her a third time before fleeing the area, the warrant states.

“He got into a vehicle, and for whatever reason he attempted to strike her with the vehicle while she was in the parking lot,” Cobb County Police Sgt. Eric Smith told local outlet WSB-TV.

The woman called 911 while taking cover behind the dumpster, according to the outlet.

“He attempted to strike her with the vehicle two additional times,” Smith said.

Davis allegedly struck another vehicle as the incident unfolded, according to a separate criminal warrant obtained by News Media.

The warrant alleges Davis was driving a gray Nissan Sentra when he collided with a gray Ford Fusion and failed to immediately stop or return to the scene.

WSB-TV also reported that Davis eventually crashed into a pole.

Neighbor Lloydethan White said he witnessed part of the chaos and claimed Davis nearly hit him, too.

“When I had seen him, he almost hit my car and her,” White told WSB-TV.

White said he checked on the woman but did not initially realize what she had allegedly just endured.

“I think it’s wrong that a woman has to fear for her life and she’s just trying to go about her normal day and workout,” he said.

Davis was arrested and booked into the Cobb County Jail on felony aggravated assault and misdemeanor hit-and-run charges, with jail records listing a total bonding amount of $5,720.

The motive behind the alleged attack remains unclear. Police have not said whether Davis and the woman had any interaction beyond the seemingly innocuous greeting before he allegedly got behind the wheel.

In a courtroom twist, a model who once graced the pages of Penthouse magazine has turned the tables on her billionaire ex-fiancé as she confronts multiple charges accusing her of swindling wealthy older men.

Adva Lavie’s recorded jail conversations with her ex-husband, Edan Ives, a notable figure in the adult film industry, were unveiled during a mental health diversion hearing in Los Angeles on Monday.

Over the course of ten calls, Lavie and Ives discussed exploiting her billionaire ex-fiancé Stephen Cloobeck’s credit card. The chatter emerged after Cloobeck ended their rapid-fire romance just last month.

Within those conversations, she expressed her willingness to testify against Cloobeck in his legal proceedings. These proceedings are linked to accusations of witness intimidation related to her criminal activities.

Detective Lopez reported Lavie, dressed in a yellow jumpsuit, communicated through “10 calls” with Ives. These calls were laden with affectionate terms and “I love yous,” reflecting her current stance on Cloobeck.

The calls revealed that Cloobeck and Lavie were not on “speaking terms” but that she still had access to his credit card.

Lavie told Ives “to use Cloobeck’s credit card, use the F**** out of it,” and suggested her mom should too, according to Lopez.

When asked by Ives if “Cloobeck would be mad?” Lavie replied “I don’t give and f—” and said she would testify against him in his upcoming case.

The billionaire is facing witness tampering and other felony charges related to Lavie’s case. Cloobeck was in the same courthouse Friday where he pleaded not guilty to all charges. 

The Post has learned the billionaire is no longer paying for Advie’s defense. Those familiar with the matter say when it comes to legal fees, Lavie is “on her own,” despite being surrounded Monday by high profile attorneys Lou Shaipiro, Jeffrey Rubenstein, and Jeremy Lessem.

Lessem argued Lavie should be released from jail and put into a rehab facility, which the defense has hand picked and Lavie has been accepted into.

“It’s in the mountains of Orange County, no cell phones allowed, a six months program addressing mental health and substance abuse,” Lessem told the court.

Ives and Lavie were officially divorced in March. The two had “an open relationship” according to Ives and made x-rated content.

In her diversion motion, filed last month, Lavie claimed that Ives had physically and sexually abused her. 

“She tells how abusive he is, he slaps her, mocks her. Yet she is calling him at least 10 times. She has a loving relationship with him not an estranged one,” prosecutors said.

Lavie is facing 11 years behind bars, and a decision on diversion is expected Monday afternoon.

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