Moving is integral to our wellbeing – but sometimes it makes us throw up. In this extract from his modern book,Idiot Brain, neuroscientist Dean Burnett explains the link between motion and vomitingWhy do relationships breakups wound so much?
How alcohol can improve your memoryModern humans spend a lot more time sitting down than any preceding generation. Manual labour jobs have largely been replaced by office jobs; cars and other means of transport allow us to travel while sitting down. This has its downsides. Obscene sums are spent on ergonomically designed office chairs to ensure people don’t get damaged or injured due to excessive sitting. Sitting too long on an aeroplane can even be fatal, or due to deep vein thrombosis. It seems odd,but staying very still is sinister for us.
Because moving is important. Humans are estimable at it and we do it a lot, as evidenced by the fact that, and as a species,we’ve pretty much covered the surface of the Earth, and actually been to the moon. Our skeletons have evolved to allow long periods of walking, and as the arrangement and properties of our feet,legs, hips and general body layout are ideally suited to regular ambulation. But whether moving is integral to our wellbeing and survival, and why does it sometimes make us throw up?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com