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Best Sitting Posture Is Not Straight Up

An anonymous reader writes, "Researchers at Woodend Hospital in Aberdeen, Scotland used a new form of magnetic resonance imaging to collect images from 22 healthy volunteers, who assumed three different sitting positions: slouching posture in which the body is hunched forward, an upright 90-degree sitting position, and a relaxed position where the subject reclined backward 135 degrees. They concluded that the reclined position is the best, and the forward slouch the worst." From the article: "'We were not created to sit down for long hours, but somehow modern life requires the vast majority of the global population to work in a seated position,' Dr. Bashir said. 'This made our search for the optimal sitting position all the more important.'"

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  1. Feline Poop! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fuck you, all you motherfucking LambdaMOOers! Slouch or recline or whatever, you're still asshats! Fuck you!

  2. Re:Is it just me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Run... cmd... enter.

  3. Re:Is it just me... by Necrobruiser · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    re: Your Sig.

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