Your foot and ankle have 26 bones, 33 joints, and over 107 ligaments and 19 muscles.
Your foot has 1/4 of all bones in your body.
During the first year of a child's life their feet grow to 1/2 their adult size. By age 12 a child's foot reaches 90% of it's adult size
The average foot gets 2 times longer when a person stands up
9 out of 10 women wear shoes that are too small for them
It is rare when both a person's feet are the same size
A pair of feet have 250,000 sweat glands, producing 1/2 pint of perspiration daily
The pressure on the feet when running can be up to 4 times the runner's body weight
The average person takes 8,000 to 10,000 steps per day. In a lifetime that is 115,000 miles, enough to go around the circumference of the earth 4 times! Women walk an average of 3 miles more per day then men
When walking your toes support 1/2 of your body weight. During an average day, that equates to hundreds of tons, which is the same as a fully loaded cement truck
Your feet mirror your general health, so foot aliments can be your first sign of serious medical problems. Signs of arthritis, diabetes, nerve and circulatory disorders can show their initial symptoms in your feet
Average shoe size for men is 10 1/2. The record shoe size is 29.5 by Matthew McGrory, He was 7'6", and over 5 feet tall when he graduated kindergarten. He was in several music videos, movies, and television shows. He was born in PA died in CA in 2005 at age 32 of natural causes
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