Fascinating Foot Facts

• The average adult takes in excess of 18,000 steps a day (even more for kids)
• Most people walk about 70,000 miles in a lifetime - that's 4 times around the Earth
• Leonardo da Vinci called the foot "A masterpiece of engineering"
• Everytime your foot hits the floor when walking, it's the equivalent of twice your body weight. Running increases this up to three times your body weight
• The foot has 250,000 sweat glands releasing about a quarter pint of perspiration a day
• An adult has 26 bones in each foot
• There are over 7,000 nerve endings in each foot