- The bones in your feet make up about one fourth of all the bones in your body
- Each foot contains 26 bones
- It takes 33 joints, 107 ligaments, 19 muscles and numerous tendons to hold the bones in place and move in a variety of ways, there are also nerves and blood vessels
- Each foot has 125,000 sweat glands, which excrete about half a pint of moisture a day
- There are more than 300 foot ailments
- Your feet can swell by up to one full shoe size when hot
- People who go barefoot or wear open sandals most of the time don't suffer from smelly feet or athletes foot
- Hot swollen feet make your legs ache and feel tired
- 7 out of 10 people don't treat their athletes foot properly
(source: www.drfoot.co.uk and www.herballuxeries.com)
