Bag ladies.

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."

This produces a pain in the neck for the women carrying the bag--and for the people standing behind them in security lines. According to a survey cited by Jennifer Harper of the Washington Times, "today's women lug around twice as much junk as their mothers," including "the iPod, cell phone, headset, laptop, multiple credit and identity cards, makeup bag, water bottle, and keys for the car, home and work."