Posture and Your Happy Organs

Last night I watched an episode of Grey’s Anatomy in which a patient had had a lung removed.  The absence of his lung left a space in the interior order of his thoracic cavity, and caused his heart to “drift” to a new location.  There’s  a technical medical term for this phenomenon (mediastinal shift), because [...]

Planning Ahead with Posture

Every day I see women my age walking down the street, or in the health food store — sometimes women who I know take yoga and pilates and work out with weights in an admirable and consistent effort to stay active as long as possible as they grow older.  If I have the opportunity to [...]