Foot Facts

• The foot contains 26 bones, 33 joints, 107 ligaments and 19 muscles.

• 1/4 of all the bones in the human body are down in your feet. When these bones are out of alignment, so is the rest of the body. 

• Women have about four times as many foot problems as men. High heels are partly to blame

• Your feet mirror your general health. Conditions such as arthritis, diabetes, nerve and circulatory disorders can show their initial symptoms in the feet

• There are 250,000 sweat glands in a pair of feet. Sweat glands in the feet excrete as much as a half-pint of moisture a day.

• Walking barefoot can cause plantar warts. The virus enters through a cut.

• The average person takes 8,000 to 10,000 steps a day, which adds up to about 115,000 miles over a lifetime. That's enough to go around the circumference of the earth four times.