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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. Re:WOOT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    the best position for you is bent over the armrest of the couch with your shorts around your ankles taking my outrageously hard cock right up the pooper

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

    I actually wondered why these researchers don't try and find better things to research. Oh, I don't know, cures for cancer or aids maybe?