Name: What do your feet reveal about you? | BBC Ideas
Uploaded: 2021-05-06T17:45:18.000Z
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During an average lifetime, our feet will walk 115,000 miles,

That's the equivalent to walking around the world

Each pair of feet has around 250,000 sweat glands.

We release up to half a pint of sweat every day from our feet,

has increased by two UK sizes since the 1970s.

We are taller and heavier, in part, due to our diet.

say a huge amount about what's going on in your mind.

Studies suggest men move their feet more when they're anxious,

about their attraction towards a person with their feet,

An open posture and foot movement away from the body

In ancient Egypt, nail polish was used to show social standing.

The lower classes often wore nude and light colours

while high society painted their nails red.

If you think you can stop feet communicating by covering them,

found people are able to accurately guess age,

income and a number of personality traits

Practical and functional shoes tend to be worn by agreeable people.

while old, but well-kept shoes, suggest a conscientious owner.

Like shoes, your socks can be equally revealing.

If your second toe is larger than the big toe, that's called Morton's toe.

The ancient Greeks loved this shape of foot -

you see it all the time in their sculptures.

About twenty to thirty per cent of people

So-called Egyptian feet are when the toes go down one by one in size,

The Egyptians were into their perfect measurements.

A so-called Roman foot is where the toe and the two toes next to it

The soles have a high concentration of Meissner's corpuscles -

Scientists believe these evolved as a defence mechanism

to protect vulnerable areas of the body from injury.

It is also thought that tickling encourages social bonding.

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