The "Asian Squat" - Walk through a market in Taipei, Hanoi, Mumbai, or Addis Ababa and you will see something that looks impossible to most adults raised in chair-based cultures: people of every age sitting in a fully collapsed squat — heels flat on the ground, hips below the knees, torso resting comfortably between the thighs — for minutes or hours at a time. They eat there. They smoke there. They wait for the bus there. The position has accumulated a slightly clunky English name (the "Asian squat," sometimes the "Slav squat" or "third-world squat") but it is really just the human resting squat: the position the hip, knee, and ankle joints were designed to fold into, and the position that almost every toddler on the planet can do without instruction.
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WATCH: Taiwanese grandmothers aged 89 and 91 train at the gym. An increasing number of elderly people in Taiwan’s super-aged society are hitting the gym to stay healthy, both physically and mentally.
The cardiology community has lost a giant. We honor the extraordinary legacy of Eugene Braunwald, MD, MACC, a visionary leader and pioneer whose outstanding contributions shaped the foundation of cardiovascular medicine as we know it today.
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