THE BIG STORY Are you a cross-legged sitter? I am, as are 81 percent of participants we asked in an Instagram poll. My preferred sitting pose is having one leg crossed over the knee or sometimes ...

Sitting with crossed legs is, you would think, fairly innocuous. But if you’re prone to high blood pressure or posture problems, you might want to read on. So, make sure you’re sitting ...

One way of assessing your mobility, particularly in the hip joints—an area where many people suffer with stiffness — is whether you can comfortably sit on the floor with your legs crossed.

As it turns out, our disposition to sit with our legs crossed or together is absolutely nothing to do with our anatomy, as some people have tried to argue, but all to do with society’s ...