Show D Daily ily Health Service By DR MORRIS MORRIS- FISHBEIN The funnel tunnel chest the n breast the round shoulder in children children children chil chil- dren and grownups are signs of bad body formation and result from bad habits of sitting sitting- standing standing- and lying down The They should warn you to maintain a good posture no matter what your activity may be An article just published by Hygeia Hy Hy- geia the Health Magazine gives these 10 commandments for good posture 1 Stand tall taU 2 Sit tall 3 3 Walk Valk tall and chest chesty with weight transmitted to the balls of your feet 4 4 Draw Drav in your abdomen pulling pulling pull pull- ing lag it back and up 5 5 Keep your our shoulders square and high but n not t hunched 6 Pull your our chin straight back 7 Flatten the hollo holl of of your back by rolling your pelvis down and back 8 Separate your our shoulders from your hips as far as possible 9 Lie tall and flat Sleep tall 10 Think hink tall Sitting Silting occupies a tremendous amount of a a childs child's time from the day it enters kindergarten until It completes its education Although it may observe an excellent posture when standing standing- or walking or running running run run- ning and even when lying in bed the amount of time spent sitting In Incorrectly Incorrectly Incorrectly In- In correctly in school may overcome o all the benefit derived from observing in lag ing good posture elsewhere However the question of posture concerns not riot only children In school but all who ho sit at their work Another group who suffer with bad posture arc are sin singers ers dancers dancer and musicians who spend man many hours in certain positions and so develop clop strange curves of their bodies The or organ an most largely concerned in posture is the spinal column This is 15 made up of many segments which fit It together in a line with certain curves These curves arc are developed by the spine to enable the thel human being to balance himself properly on two legs When the spino spine curves in other I ways as a result of disease or of bad posture symptoms develop in addition to the odd appearance Many persons get g-et bad posture from wrong habits of standing sitting sitting sit sit- ting walking and sleeping They slide down in their chairs or develop develop de de- de- de strange attitudes attitudes' to meet the fashions This is particularly the case in girls Bad posture also results In tn cramping of the organs within the abdomen interfering with action of ol heart lungs and diaphragm m. Another factor involved In bad I posture is strain on the eyes If Ie a achIld I chIld hild sits in proper relationship to Its work the eyes will be at a correct correct correct cor cor- distance from the work and the illumination will be thrown on the page e satisfactorily The most modern schools tal take e account account account ac ac- ac- ac count of all these factors and arrange arrange arrange ar ar- ar- ar range both pupil and desk properly |