From a young age the importance of posture is ingrained in us. But fast-forward a couple decades and most of us spend the majority of the day twisted into some sort of contortion in front of a ...

Good posture habits help us stay alert and prevent injury. According to WebMD, having good posture is essential for bone, joint and muscle health, and can even improve your mood and energy levels. If ...

In the US, the message is clear: sitting up straight is good, and slouching is bad. But Beth Linker, author of "Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America", says it's more complicated than that. In her ...

The unusual and unexpected evolution of the perceived crisis of poor posture in contemporary America—spanning from eugenics and posture contests to present-day advocates of "paleo posture." There’s ...

Posture check! Ha, caught you, didn’t I? Walk through any Starbucks or a typical office setting, and you’re likely to observe a sea of hunched-over humanity. You don’t have to be sitting to slump, ...

A distraught wife begged me to write about the importance of good posture. “My husband sits for many hours a day slouched over his computer,” she said. “I’ve told him repeatedly this is bad for his ...

The Upright Go 2 posture trainer promises to give you better posture in two weeks, so I tried it to see what it'd do for my slouching habit. So, it was time to call in the big guns. I procured a ...

The Upright Go is a smart device that reminds you when you're slouching. I wore it during work and found it helpful most of the time. Doctors said I still need to work out and build up my core for ...

Your mom was right all along. Standing up straight isn’t just about looking confident or adding those extra inches to your height. The way you hold yourself throughout the day could be silently ...

In 1995 Ron Rosenbaum wrote a New York Times Magazine article about a batch of nude photographs he discovered in the Smithsonian Institution archives. The collection of images, numbering in the ...