What you did not know about leg health

Legs are part of the human body, without which it is very difficult to lead a full life. They need to pay a lot of attention to the legs served us with faith and truth. Interesting facts about the health of the feet will help you correctly orient in how to protect them.

Interesting facts about the legs

A person walks not so little - he is able to go more than 10 thousand steps a day.

More than a quarter of the bones of the amount that is in the whole body is in the legs

The woman, according to statistics, is 5 km longer than the representative of the stronger sex (average data for the day)

Sweat glands on the legs are much larger than in other parts of the body. On both legs there are more than 250 thousand.

It is not surprising that a person can sweat a lot: only one foot can sweat a day to one fifth of a liter - 400 mililiters.

Legs can exert great pressure on the surface over which a person walks or runs. When we run, our foot presses on the ground 4 times more than weigh ourselves.

The first shoes we put on our feet more than 5 million years ago. It was, of course, leather, and was made from the hide of mammal predators.

Not surprisingly, 90% of women have calluses and corns: for the sake of beautiful shoes they are able to buy a pair that presses. For men in the first place the comfort of shoes, not her beauty. To buy shoes and not to suffer later with her, it is important to try it on in the afternoon, when the leg is already tired and slightly increased in size (nabuhla).

The size of the leg increases faster during pregnancy, during the period of active growth (from 13 to 19 years), during the warm summer rains.

Shoes are not always divided into left and right. The discoverers were the Greeks - they introduced a system of right and left shoes (sandals).

How to calculate the size of your own leg?

The size of the foot began to be considered in England by the size of a grain. The measure of the length of shoes was introduced by King Edward II. He counted how many grains of diameter 0, 84 cm fit into the length of the foot. One seed is one size. So the world began to calculate the size of shoes.

The owner of the biggest foot in the world is Matthew McGrory. His leg is 65th size. And the smallest leg in the world of a woman - her foot is equal to 30 grains, that is, it is the 30th size.

To calculate the size of your own foot, you need to divide its length by two and add to the length what will turn out. For example, the length of your foot is 28 cm. 28/2 = 14. Now 14 + 28 = 42. So, 42 is the size of the shoe with the length of the foot 28.

A few more interesting facts about the legs

1. Nails on the legs we cut 4 times less often than on the hands. The reason is that they grow 4 times slower than on the hands.
2. Throughout life we walk quite a lot. If we calculate the distance that we walked through life, it will be equal to the length of 4 revolutions around the planet Earth
3. People standing profession - teachers, salesmen, hairdressers - a day give a load on their feet more than a hundred tons.
4. The most risky part of the body, which breaks and traumatizes most often - is the legs.
5. Pain in the ankle is a characteristic symptom for women with obesity. Ladies with excess weight can experience pain in the legs 4 times more often than their peers with normal weight.
6. Walking is almost a win-win remedy for illnesses. Walking can cure most diseases, especially those with excess weight. Probably, therefore, doctors recommend walking as a preventive measure rather than another sport.
7. Feet - the parts of the foot on which the thickest layer of skin grows.
8. Eight percent - this is exactly the figure by which the volume of the foot changes during the day.
9. The legs of a man consist of 33 joints and 26 bones - small and large. And the biggest bone among them is the femur. It is so long that it makes up to 28% of a person's height.

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