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Foot Facts

• The average person walks over 115,000 miles during their lifetime - that’s enough to walk around the world 4 times.

 

• The soles of your feet contain bones that are not attached to  any other bones. These sesamoid bones are located in your tendons, and move with your tendons.

 

• There are about 125,000 sweat glands in each of your feet.

 

• Your feet excrete as much as a half pint of sweat each day.

 

• 3 out of 4 Americans experience serious foot problems in their lifetimes.

 

• American women suffer 4 times as many foot problems as American men.

 

• Your feet very closely mirror your general health. Many diseases reveal their initial symptoms in your feet.

 

• Each of your feet contains 26 odd-shaped bones, 33 joints, 107 ligaments and 19 muscles.

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