The Importance Of Body Posture
When we were a child, our parents has tought us manners and disciplines that in the future will give us a lot of advantage as an adult. For example at dinnertime, our mother would poke our back out of nowhere and said to us to “stand up straight” or “don’t slouch”. We hated it then, but as time goes by it has been proven not only to the benefit of our body to grow properly tall, but also benefit to our paycheck. Yeah,being tall has its advantages. It’s hard not to know when you’re reminded of it your whole life—watching the back of someone’s head at concerts, being relegated to the front row of school pictures, never owning a pair of pants that didn’t need hemming, and so forth.
Posture is defined as the carriage of the body. Good posture means carrying your body in a way that puts the least strain on muscles and ligaments. Poor posture can cause pain in the back and neck, weakened muscles, obesity, reduced joint flexibility, and eventually causes injury. Improving your posture is a great way to improve your image while at the same time improving your health.
A study showed that height as more of a determining factor for salary than even age or gender. In fact, when it comes to gender, height is really only a factor for men. The professors believe that short women don’t experience salary discrepancies on the same level as men do. The reason for the male bias could be evolutionary. Back in our caveman days, taller men signified good health. This doesn’t necessarily hold true today at the individual level, but across various populations, it often does. The increase of proper nutrition and overall well-being has yielded an increasingly tall population in certain areas of the world, such as Europe.
Just as height is a product of both genes and environmental factors, how healthy we are and the likelihood of getting diseases is a combination of lifestyle and hereditary predisposition. It’s true that populations that have good prenatal care and access to nutritious foods tend to be taller than populations that are malnourished, which in severe cases can prevent people from reaching their height potential. But that doesn’t correlate to the individual level; in well-fed and cared for countries like the U.S., genetics are a larger predictor of height than nutrition is. (see the report from CDC) Tall people are not necessarily the beacons of health and strength any more than short people are sickly and weak.
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