The Archive · 1939

Full Stretch Kills Slouch

When you are stretched to full extension" there is no. slack for Founded. shoulders and sway back. And if you make 2 habit of bending forward only at the hips instead of sections, there is much Tess danker of a dowager's hump and double chin, That unsightly little knob of fat on the nape of the neck is caused by poor head carriage. And as. that in itself were not penalty enough, it-causes a double chin!

Now that there is a revival of such Jadylike pursuits as crocheting, tatting and knitting, it will pay to occasionally pause in your work and cheek up on your head posture. You fan counteract a tendency to let the head droop forward by stretching up with the neck and keeping the chin. evel. But if you need special ex-cercises to erase the hump, here they are:

Toes and Chest Must Touch Wall Stand facing a wall so that toes end chest touch it. Then retract the abdominal wall by pulling up with the lower abdominal muscles as you push the head away from the wall. This tonically contracts the absominal muscles and all the muscles used

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