Posted: Friday, November 6, 2015 3:00 am
Maybe you remember your mother telling you to stop slouching and stand up straight. Or she may have encouraged you to place a pile of books on your head and attempt to walk around the room in a perfectly balanced way so the books stayed put.
I remember resenting my mother’s continual hounding to stand up straight, but the thing is ... Mom was right. Good posture has its important benefits.
For one thing with proper posture, you are far less likely to trip and take a fall, something that becomes of real concern as we aging boomers, and those beyond, become less steady on our feet. By looking straight ahead, rather than down, our body is more in balance and we have a clearer picture of what’s going on in the world around us.