Thursday, August 30, 2007

Interesting Foot Facts

  1. More than 70% of people in the world will experience painful foot problems during their lifetime. (However, foot pain is NOT normal)
  2. An average person engaging in a non-strenuous activity will walk about 115,000 miles in his whole lifetime
  3. On any typical day, your poor feet actually bear a cumulative force of several hundred tonnes
  4. Out of the body's 206 bones, 26 of them are located in 1 foot (which is close to 13% for one foot, and 25% (or a quarter) for both feet)
  5. Leonardo Di Vinci once proclaimed the human feet to be "a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art"

If your feet are so important, isn't it high time you take good care of them?

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