For Best Toilet Health: Squat or Sit?

[P.J.]

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By Dr. Mercola

Is the Western toilet in part responsible for problems like hemorrhoids, constipation, IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease), appendicitis, and even heart attacks?

If you examine the data, there is a great deal of evidence this is true. The modern toilet has required us to change the position we use to evacuate our bowels, which changes the anatomy of… well, a poop, to put it bluntly.


Infants instinctively squat to defecate, as does the majority of the world's population. But somehow the West was convinced that sitting is more civilized.


Sitting on the modern Thomas Crapper-style sit-down toilet is designed to place your knees at a 90-degree angle to your abdomen. However, the time-honored natural squat position places the knees much closer to your torso, and this position actually changes the spacial relationships of your intestinal organs and musculature, optimizing the forces involved in defecation[SUP].[/SUP]


Sitting to evacuate your bowel requires you to apply additional force (straining), which has some unwanted biological effects, including a temporary disruption in cardiac flow.

Read more from here:For Best Toilet Health: Squat or Sit?



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[krish44]

By Dr. Mercola

Is the Western toilet in part responsible for problems like hemorrhoids, constipation, IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease), appendicitis, and even heart attacks?

If you examine the data, there is a great deal of evidence this is true. The modern toilet has required us to change the position we use to evacuate our bowels, which changes the anatomy of… well, a poop, to put it bluntly.


Infants instinctively squat to defecate, as does the majority of the world's population. But somehow the West was convinced that sitting is more civilized.


Sitting on the modern Thomas Crapper-style sit-down toilet is designed to place your knees at a 90-degree angle to your abdomen. However, the time-honored natural squat position places the knees much closer to your torso, and this position actually changes the spacial relationships of your intestinal organs and musculature, optimizing the forces involved in defecation[SUP].[/SUP]


Sitting to evacuate your bowel requires you to apply additional force (straining), which has some unwanted biological effects, including a temporary disruption in cardiac flow.

Read more from here:For Best Toilet Health: Squat or Sit?



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you are frightening me . I had given up on squatting in favour of sitting a long time back. reversal can be very painful.LOL

 

[Raji Ram]

Dear P J Sir,

Naina Sir posted this topic long back in another thread.

Here is a picture to get an idea about the additional stool to be used.

Source: Bamboo squatting stool

 

[renuka]

Squatting is easier provided we do not have arthritis.
Gravity aids the expulsion of fecal matter in squatting and also people tend to read in seated toilets and take a long time to come out from there.

But for guys..to urinate in a seated toilet is easier cos with the squatting type of toilet they are surely going cause splashing of urine everywhere!LOL

 

[P.J.]

renukaji

guys usually urinate standing, squatting type is not helpful.

 

[kunjuppu]

do some religions have rules about how to do the #1 and #2? or is it a figment of my imaginative dreams? thanks.

 

[P.J.]

Yagnopaveetham while attending nature calls


Nivita Position:

Brahmins tie tightly their Yagnopaveetham to theright ear/left ear while attending nature calls. While it is to protect the sacred thread becoming soiled during the course of attending nature calls,there is also a health element involved in it. It is said that important nerves connecting the excretory system pass through right/left ear. When pressure is applied it helps in regulating the functioning of excretory organs perhaps the concept of Acupressure.


(This position was suggested probably Squatting position as in those days there was no sitting position to relieve)

YAGNOPAVEETHAM - PARAMAM PAVITHRAM
Hinduism - A Scientific Way of Life: Janehu/Upanayanam - The Sacred Thread ceremony

 

[kunjuppu]

thanks PJ.

do the abrahamic religion ie jews or muslims have any restrictions? or the parsis?

i have heard that the thais use bamboo sticks to wipe out the poo off their bums after #2. is this true?

 

[P.J.]

Kunjuppu Sir

No idea that some use bamboo sticks to wipe out the poo off their bums after 2.

But i have seen Muslims using a small piece brick, to wipe out the drops of urine as they consider spilling urine on any part their body is a sinful act.

There are, it seems guidelines , issued in their religion.

 

[sarang]

Even in the nineties I have seen indian type squatting type toilets used in japan and italy. We are not the only ones.

 

[Raji Ram]

Now that squatting is considered a better solution, here is my idea to save money. No need to buy the stool!
Take a wide plastic tub used for washing cloths, put it upside down in front of the WC and keep the feet on it! eace:

P.S: The bamboo stool seems to cost nearly $ 100 !!!

 

[renuka]

Yagnopaveetham while attending nature calls


Nivita Position:

Brahmins tie tightly their Yagnopaveetham to theright ear/left ear while attending nature calls. While it is to protect the sacred thread becoming soiled during the course of attending nature calls,there is also a health element involved in it. It is said that important nerves connecting the excretory system pass through right/left ear. When pressure is applied it helps in regulating the functioning of excretory organs perhaps the concept of Acupressure.


(This position was suggested probably Squatting position as in those days there was no sitting position to relieve)

YAGNOPAVEETHAM - PARAMAM PAVITHRAM
Hinduism - A Scientific Way of Life: Janehu/Upanayanam - The Sacred Thread ceremony

Dear PJ sir,

Somehow I dont buy this accupressure story.

You see when we hang clothes we need a place to hook them up....so same way..we need a place to hang the sacred thread and ears are nature's hangers..so you can hang the thread there and press it..like how we hang clothes to dry using pegs too.

Surely we do not want the thread to be a carrier of E coli..just like doctors these days are advised not to wear ties at work cos it carries bacteria from patient to patient.

 

[P.J.]

In old age, people prefer sitting posture than squatting.

 

[Raji Ram]

In old age, people prefer sitting posture than squatting.

Try the 'inverted tub idea', P J Sir!

But wonder whether you have a wide tub in the bathroom!

 

[sarang]

The western commode is queen victoria's brain child, I read in an article.

In old age, people prefer sitting posture than squatting.

 

[tbs]

Yagnopaveetham while attending nature calls


Nivita Position:

Brahmins tie tightly their Yagnopaveetham to theright ear/left ear while attending nature calls. While it is to protect the sacred thread becoming soiled during the course of attending nature calls,there is also a health element involved in it. It is said that important nerves connecting the excretory system pass through right/left ear. When pressure is applied it helps in regulating the functioning of excretory organs perhaps the concept of Acupressure.


(This position was suggested probably Squatting position as in those days there was no sitting position to relieve)

YAGNOPAVEETHAM - PARAMAM PAVITHRAM
Hinduism - A Scientific Way of Life: Janehu/Upanayanam - The Sacred Thread ceremony

hi p j sir,

i see 2 reasons here....when i was in veda patasala....all brahmacharis follow some religious rules while on nature call....

generally we brahmacharis go to river to take bath and banks of used for natural call.....easy water facility....a lot of

open spaces.............while doing natural call...yajnopavitham should not touch the earth.....using right year generally gor holding....

for both 1 and 2 we have to sit only...not standing.....once we hanging in right year....automatically some kind of nervous system

works....there are very strict rules to be followed while in veda patasala...

 

[Raji Ram]

The western commode is queen victoria's brain child, I read in an article.

'arasi evvazhi; makkaL avvazhi'! :flock:

 

[sarang]

When there is a will there is a way.

also people tend to read in seated toilets and take a long time to come out from there.

 

[Raji Ram]

I was afraid to scroll down! :fear:

Luckily, that guy has a shorts on!!

 

[Raji Ram]

One of my friends in the U S of A has a habit of reading old novels in the toilet! A new Mexican lady came to clean the toilet and

that particular day, the roll of paper was to be replaced. Seeing that there was no toilet paper roll and the novels inside, the lady
came out screaming, 'Do you guys use old books as toilet paper?' :faint:

 

[tbs]

I was afraid to scroll down! :fear:

Luckily, that guy has a shorts on!!

hi madam,

its not xxx pic...dont worry..lol

 

[renuka]

I was afraid to scroll down! :fear:

Luckily, that guy has a shorts on!!

OMG RR Ji,

You still have fear to see a human body?

What yaar...what is there to be scared?

 

[sarang]

Don't we all say -avar kuzhandai madiri!

I was afraid to scroll down! :fear:

Luckily, that guy has a shorts on!!

 

[kunjuppu]

In old age, people prefer sitting posture than squatting.

here is what wikipedia says about the flush toilet and its history. the english term, 'to crap', colloquial for #2, is after thomas crapper, who did a lot, to popularize the flush toilet, after making great improvements to an existing design.

the concept of sitting while #2, has been in vogue in the west, time immemorial. a removable can was placed under the chair, and after finishing the jobbie, the contents, was usually, thrown out of the window, into the streets. woe to anyone walking by and feeling the wrath of the lady of the house, whose task it was usually, to throw out the smelly stuff.

in the british army of india, the white officers used 'thunder box', another name for the removal bowl, and it was the duty of the indian servant to clean it. this usally came from the tamil dalit class, and hence, the large presence of dalits in the british indian army, and another reason, why tamil regiments did not participate in the 1857 war. as these indians felt the britishers treated them better than caste hindus.

here is a ditty to make you smile: this was a graffitti i saw in my canadian university long ago in a toilet, (and yes, i was reviewing my class notes then )...and this is how it went..THIS IS NOT A PLACE TO THINK PRAY OR PONDER; YOU HAVE COME HERE TO SHIT FART AND THUNDER'...followed by 101 commments, too 'polite' for this gentile forum

 

[P.J.]

I was afraid to scroll down! :fear:

Luckily, that guy has a shorts on!!

Raji Madam

The Best way to scroll down and see such pictures is to close one eye with hand and see with the other eye .... lol ( normally kids do like that )