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Poor posture can decrease the lung capacity. While standing up straight, good posture allows the lungs to expand over a greater area, meaning the lung capacity has increased. Slouching, or doing things that are in bad posture reduces the area your lungs can expand into. This decreases the amount of air you breath in with every breath. Consequently you will have to take more breaths with bad posture to equal the amount of air intake with proper posture (though there would not be a large difference).

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