Our hands have it easy compared to our feet, which are relegated to enclosed and often constricted spaces for hours on end and are required to bear all of our body weight (unless we do handstands). Yet most people don't give much thought to their feet, often viewing them as the least important part of the body. If you're one of them, these fascinating foot facts might help change your mind (or at least provide interesting fodder for your next cocktail party conversation):

• Each foot contains 26 bones (with both feet together having more than one quarter of the body's total bones), 33 joints, and more than 100 tendons, ligaments, and muscles.
• There are more than 100,000 nerve endings in each foot, which provide sensory feedback to your brain, enabling you to automatically adjust your gait according to your environment to reduce impact forces on your body. Wearing shoes alters this feedback mechanism.
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• Each foot has about 125,000 sweat glands, which combined excrete more than a cup of perspiration a day (no wonder feet sometimes don’t smell so good).
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• A person who averages 8,000 to 10,000 steps a day (the minimum recommendation for overall good health) will, over a 75-year lifetime, walk the equivalent of circling the world three times.
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• During high-impact activity, the forces on your feet can be equal to twice your body weight—or even more.

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