Do you know your femur from your fibula?
Millions of Brits are unable to tell their femur from their fibula, research has found.
A study of 2,000 adults revealed that despite six in 10 claiming to have a good knowledge of their bones and what they need to do to keep them healthy, more than one in four could not correctly name the thigh bone as a femur.
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And even fewer, just 37 per cent, know the names of the two bones in the lower arm – the radius and ulna.
And while 74 per cent of people realise the femur, our longest bone, is the name of the thigh bone, almost one in twenty wrongly believe the large leg bone is called the humerus.
Less than three in 10 are aware the pubis is part of the hip bone while 29 per cent have no idea the body’s smallest bone is in the ear.
Almost one in 10 wrongly believe it to be in the toe.
But it’s not just the names of bones and where they sit in the body which leave Brits scratching their heads, as just 36 per cent of Brits are aware that magnesium is a vital nutrient for good bone health, alongside calcium.
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