Healthy Foot Factoids
- The average person takes 10,000 steps/day. That adds up to 115,000 miles over a lifetime. (or around 4 trips around the planet)
- There are 52 bones in the human foot - accounting for 25% of the bones in the entire human body
- Feet can tell all your dirty secrets...early symptoms for diabetes, arthritis and circulatory problems may show themselves in the feet
- The average woman walks 3 miles more a day than the average man
- There are 250,000 sweat glands in the feet
- Sweat glands in the feet produce as much as half a pint of moisture each day
- Foot odour is normally produced when skin proteins decompose while being exposed to excessive amounts of sweat
Feet = Hard Workers
- The skin on your feet is 20 times thicker than on any other part of the human body
- The pressure on the feet when running can be as much as four times the runner's body weight
- When walking, each time the heel lifts off the ground it forces the toes to carry one half of the walker's body weight
Sources:
http://www.totalfootcare.ca/Fun%20Foot%20Facts.htm
http://www.foothealthcare.com/html/footfacts/footfacts.htm