Posture! Does It Matter? How Did America Cope with Poor Posture in 1914? Should We Worry About the "Marginal Decade" of Our Lives? Can We Do Anything Today to Improve the Last Ten Years of Life?

The Best Paragraph I've Read: As Beth Linker explains in her book “Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America” (Princeton), a long history of anxiety about the proximity between human and bestial nature has played out in this area of social science. Linker, a historian of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, argues that at the onset of the twentieth century the United States became gripped by what she characterizes as a poor-posture epidemic: a widespread social contagion of slumping that could, it was feared, have deleterious effects not just upon individual health but also upon the body politic. Sitting up straight would help remedy all kinds of failings, physical and moral. This paragraph comes from The New Yorker. The article is titled: "The Truth Behind the Slouching Epidemic." The article is written by Rebecca Mead. You can read the full article here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/15/slouch-posture-panic-in-modern-america-beth-linker-book-review Zac & Don discuss whether it matters if you have good posture. They also reflect upon their own posture and discuss when posture mattered most in American history. In addition they talk about the marginal decade of one's life and whether there is anything we can do now to get ready for a better last ten years of living. Zac & Don also reference the following article: "How to Die in Good Health." Author: Dhruv Khullar