<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/39cc7ea0-8bda-45be-95bf-a3d5f66b483e/75C999F4-1C4F-4108-A021-428DD36E5C92/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20061128/sc_livescience/newadvicedontsitupstraight" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20061128/sc_livescience/newadvicedontsitupstraight" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20061128/sc_livescience/newadvicedontsitupstraight"><P> The longstanding advice to "sit up straight" has been turned on its head by a new study that suggests leaning back is a much better posture. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20061128/sc_livescience/newadvicedontsitupstraight"><P>Using a new form of <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/livescience/sc_livescience/storytext/newadvicedontsitupstraight/21094521/SIG=11rrf11v0/*http://www.livescience.com/imageoftheday/siod_060123.html">magnetic resonance imaging</A> (MRI), researchers studied 22 volunteers with no back pain history. The subjects assumed three different positions: slouching; sitting up straight at 90 degrees; and sitting back with a 135-degree posture—all while their spines were scanned.   </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20061128/sc_livescience/newadvicedontsitupstraight"><P>"A 135-degree body-thigh sitting posture was demonstrated to be the best biomechanical sitting position, as opposed to a 90-degree posture, which most people consider normal," said study author, Waseem Amir Bashir, a researcher at the University of Alberta Hospital in Canada. "Sitting in a sound anatomic position is essential, since the strain put on the <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/livescience/sc_livescience/storytext/newadvicedontsitupstraight/21094521/SIG=125iggr7f/*http://www.livescience.com/scienceoffiction/061110_technovelgy.html">spine</A> and its associated ligaments over time can lead to <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/livescience/sc_livescience/storytext/newadvicedontsitupstraight/21094521/SIG=11vble79f/*http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/050720_golf_pain.html">pain</A>, deformity and chronic illness."</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/75C999F4-1C4F-4108-A021-428DD36E5C92/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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