Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1917 — BAD HABITS TO BE AVOIDED [ARTICLE]

BAD HABITS TO BE AVOIDED

Incorrect Postures, Sitting or Standing, Lead to Ills Which Creep Upon the Individual. The significance of the postures habitually assumed by individuals is the subject of serious consideration by physicians at present. Exhaustive investigations seem to Indicate pretty conclusively that bad postures, such as stooping shoulders, contracted chests or protruding abdomens, are not merely the result of careless habits in the individual, but are due to some slight physical deformity which should be corrected. Generally speaking, persons who have bad posture habits are not very robust. Everyone has observed that persons who are fatigued drop into bad postures temporarily; and there are many examples of unusually robust persons with whom bad posture was chronic. Abraham Lincoln, for example, stooped badly; but he was very powerful and never sick. Nevertheless, a tendency to bad posture undoubtedly “adds to the tbend toward weakness and chronic disease,” particularly In individuals who are not naturally fugged.