Bag ladies.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at windmills - Brief article

Some years ago, I wrote about how the shoulder bag that most women were now wearing caused their bodies to tilt in a way that made their walk distinctly less sexy. For understandable reasons, this item found little favor among my female readers. But now I can say I'm just thinking about their health. According to Dr. Jane Sadler of the Baylor Health Care System, "If you think about how you carry a bag, it's usually on one side and you kind of pull your neck to one side and lift your shoulder ... It creates swain along the neck and into the nerves that exit the neck and down the shoulder."

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