TORONTO CHIROPODIST SHARES SOME FUN FOOT FACTS
posted: Jan. 05, 2014.
- The record for the world’s largest feet belongs to Matthew McGrory who wears US size 28 1/2 shoes. The average men’s size is 10 1/2.
- Madeline Albrecht holds the world record for most feet sniffed at 5,600.
- The foot accounts for 25% of the bones in the human body.
- The average woman walks three miles more per day than the average male.
- There are roughly 250,000 sweat glands on a pair of feet.
- Sweat glands in the feet produce as much as half a pint of moisture each day.
- The pressure on the feet when running can be as much as four times the runners body weight.
- The first shoes were invented 5,000,000 years ago during the Ice Age and were made from animal skins.
- The afternoon is the optimum time to shop for shoes because the feet tend to be more swollen then.
- 9 out of 10 women wear shoes that are too small for them.
- Women experience foot problems four times more than men.
- Fingernails and toenails grow faster during hot weather, pregnancy and teenage years.
- The ancient Romans were the first to construct distinct left and right shoes. Before that, shoes could be worn on either foot.
- The average foot gets two sizes longer when a person stands up.
- Shoe sizes were devised in England by King Edward II who declared in 1324 that the diameter of one barely corn- a third of an inch- would represent one full shoe size. That’s still true today.
- The feet can contract an array of nasty diseases from communal showers: Planter Wart, Athletes foot, Ring worm!