It's an interesting paper but given the lack of substance this feels more like a school presentation than something you'd find in an academic journal.
It's an interesting paper but given the lack of substance this feels more like a school presentation than something you'd find in an academic journal.
It seems that the author's observations are primarily from various camping-equivalents, more so than home life.
To my sibling commenter, whether pregnancy is or isn't "healthy" isn't quite the point, IMO. Various stages of pregnancy do occupy a non-trivial part of many people's lifespan and significantly change the ergonomics of sleep. Given that humans have been getting pregnant for a long time, it is a big miss to not even mention that it hasn't been considered. Academic training tries to impress on most authors that they should mention what they're ignoring and why, not least to set up the citation train for the future and support grant applications.
I mean, undergoing pregnancy is in and of itself not great for one's health (especially without modern healthcare), so I don't know how much that specific thing should be factored into healthy lifestyle choices.
In particular, pregnancy puts a lot of pressure on internal organs in a way that means one should not be surprised to have only one working sleeping position by the third trimester. At that point it's governed by Newton and another growing human, not choice.
(To be clear, I'm not saying pregnancy is a bad lifestyle choice, just that pregnancy is not kind to the human body.)
I'm pretty sure the average human is not healthy, even in the societies analysed, especially if you factor in injuries, disabilities or pregnancy. If anything the perfectly "healthy" able body is the exception to the human experience.
So yes, if we want meaningful advice on healthier sleeping postures we should take various illnesses, disabilities, ailments and conditions into account.
At least this seems like a fair consideration if we already dedicate this much text to reducing the risk of insect bites on your penis.