About the Feet 

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• An adult skeleton has 206 bones

• The foot has 26 bones!  One quarter of all the bones in your body are in your feet

• There are 20 muscles in each foot, as well as 33 joints, 10 tendons and 107 ligaments

• The soles of our feet have more than 7000 nerve endings

• There are approximately 250,000 sweat glands in a pair of feet, and they excrete as much as half a pint of moisture each day

• When we are born our feet are underdeveloped.  The arches develop as we grow

• The average person walks 110,000 miles in their lifetime

• Each foot takes 1.5 times your body weight when you walk and when running your feet take 5 times your body weight.

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Check out the below images to see how your feet connect to different parts of your body.