Feet: the Body’s Most Curiously Interesting Anatomical Structures

FEET THE BODY'S MOST INTERESTING ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES The average person takes 8,000 to 10,000 steps a day, that's around 115,000 miles in a lifetime. Equaling more than four times around the earth. A human foot and ankle is a strong, mechanical structure that contains 26 bones, 33 joints, and more than 100 muscles, tendons and ligaments. 1/4 of all the bones in the human body are in the feet. When these bones are out of alignment, so is the rest of the body. In a pair of feet, there are 250,000 sweat glands. Toenails grow faster during hot weather, pregnancy and the teenage years. During an average day of walking, the total forces on your feet can total hundreds of tons, equivalent to an average of a fully loaded cement truck When walking, each time your heel lifts off the ground it forces the toes to carry 1/2 of your body weight. WASATCH FOOT & ANKLE INSTITUTE http://www.nuestep.com/15-interestingweird-foot-facts-find/