CORRECT POSTURE WHEN STANDING
Good health helps to give a person an active, cheerful mind, and this makes one alert, capable, and able to work to the best advantage. Good health gives poise and grace to the body and helps to create efficiency.
The following are good rules:
- Form health-giving habits.
- Let keeping well and happy be one of your most important duties.
The person who honestly wishes to be useful must begin at once to make good health a certainty.
Rules for Correct Posture
Standing. We should stand correctly in order that the organs of the body—heart, lungs, stomach, liver, and kidneys—may have room and be in position to do their work well. We should stand erect, chin in, chest high, abdomen flat, and with the weight of the body resting on the balls of the feet.
Walking. In walking the weight of the body should be thrown well forward.
It is correct to let the heel touch the ground first, but the weight should very quickly be transferred to the ball of the foot. The correct position of the feet is with the toes pointed straight forward. This straight-foot position is characteristic of our best athletes, our native Indians, and others who are noted for great endurance in running and walking. Two things are essential: stockings should be a little longer than the feet, and shoes should be roomy at the toes and have heels not more than one inch high.