So I was casually surfing the internet and came upon this article on cracked.com 7 basic things you are doing wrong. One of the things was pooping. I thought to myself, how can someone mess up on such a instinctively easy task? Further down the article it said the best way to do your thing is to squat. This totally reminded me of the squatty potty in China.I guess we have it all wrong then... =[
Here is the article courtesy of cracked.com:
What could be simpler than taking a good crap? Even babies are good at it. You might be surprised, then, to find out that even those of us who can burp without throwing up get this wrong every single day.
The one who just threw up on the other one's shoulder is better at pooping.
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Future toilets will exist just to kill us.
So how the hell are we meant to do it?Future toilets will exist just to kill us.
Luckily, there's a relatively simple way to end this poop dilemma. A 2003 study observed 28 people pooping in three positions: sitting on a high toilet, sitting on a lower one and squatting like they were catchers at a baseball game (catcher's mitt optional, but encouraged). After initially being mistaken for a German porn company, the researchers found that pooping took about a minute less when done squatting and that participants rated the experience as "easier" (God, we hope they were getting paid).
In fact, toilets that require you to squat that way have been the standard for most of human history and are still widely used in the non-Western world.
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And urban centers of the Western world.
According to proctologists, "We were not meant to sit on toilets, we were meant to squat in the field." When you're in a sitting or standing position, you're forming an angle between the where the poop is and where the poop's gotta come out. There's even a muscle that's purpose is to tighten things up when we're sitting or standing to prevent accidents. Squatting straightens out this angle and removes the chokehold.And urban centers of the Western world.
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For no reason, here's an icing pipe.
If the thought of squatting awkwardly on top of your toilet seat isn't for you, you can produce a similar poop-enhancing angle by resting your feet on a footstool (or anything handy) and leaning the top half of your body forward.For no reason, here's an icing pipe.
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Demonstrated here.
Demonstrated here.
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