FUN FACTS

Hands and feet; over half the bones!

More than half the bones in the human body are in the hands and feet.

Whole adult body: 206 bones (270 bones at birth)
Each hand: 27 bones
Each foot: 26 bones
Hands + feet = 106 bones


Sweaty!

Each foot has approximately 250.000 sweat glands. This makes it one of the most perspiring parts of the entire body. A foot can produce up to a pint of sweat in one day!


A whole lot of walking!

On average, your feet take 10.000 steps every day, that’s 3.000.000 in a year, and you’re expected to have walked 4 times around the globe - 115.000 miles – by the time you reach the end of your life.

For the love of numbers!
 
Currently there are 160,000 Complementary Therapists in the UK  - out of these 36,000 are Reflexologists
 
100 million people in the EU use some form of complementary therapy

6 billion a year is spent on complementary therapy in the UK
 
Taiwan holds the world record for highest number of Reflexology treatments given at one time – 1,000!
 
Sent by Helen Fowler, Registered Reflexologist in the UK (Kent, London) - www.reflexology.googlepages.com

 

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