1. For one thing, it undoes some of the less effective (and sometimes pain-inducing) compensatory positions the body adopts after sitting in a chair (or on a couch or in a car; pick your body-always-at-a-right-angle poison) for hours at a time, day after day.
2. Our bodies are built to sit in ground-based positions—perhaps why about one-third of the world’s population still makes a habit of deliberately avoiding seats and instead do things like squatting to wait for the bus, kneeling to eat, sitting cross-legged on the ground to write.
Extracted from TIME Magazine Article written by authors of NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER ‘Built to Move: The Ten Essential Habits to Help You Move Freely and Live Fully’