[Diggers350] Diggers' Lavatorium: another kind of squatting

[Fran Ryan]

Remember reading years ago in New Scientist that the Germans were 
concerned because so many of the Turkish Gastarbeiter stood on toilet 
seats to squat (as Ilyan suggests) which didn't please their hosts!

On 09/01/2013 00:30, ilyan wrote:
> Isn't it easier and cheaper to lift the lid, arrange the clothes, and
> squat with your feet on what she is using as the seat?
>
> There are alternative squatting systems available but Ive never seen one
> installed  in UK.    I will ask Towy Works what cost tomorrow. Ilyan
> On 09/01/13 00:04, Tony Gosling wrote:
>> To squat or not?
>>
>> by NYREE MCFARLANE - www.stuff.co.nz <http://www.stuff.co.nz> - 09JAN2013
>>
>> Emacs!
>>
>> We very rarely discuss it with our peers, but we all do it - call it
>> dropping a load, popping to the loo or whatever you like, there's a
>> whole school of people who now think the way we go to the bathroom is
>> bad for our health.
>>
>> The elevated toilet was invented by John Harrington in 1596 (the
>> British writer even managed to convince his famous godmother, Queen
>> Elizabeth I, to be one of the first to try it). And ever since then,
>> more and more parts of the world - with great patches of the Middle
>> East, Asia, Europe and Africa a large exception - have taken to
>> sitting rather than squatting while eliminating waste.
>>
>> "The modern toilet is an ergonomic nightmare," John Edwards, the man
>> behind squat-assisting stool the Squatty Potty told the Washington
>> Post. "We didn't evolve to 'go' that way." Edwards says squatting can
>> rule out "issues caused by modern toilets," from constipation and
>> haemorrhoids to pelvic-floor disorders, all of which, he says, are
>> "linked to straining" while defecating.
>>
>> The 37-year-old designer's simple invention costs $42 (minus shipping)
>> and is basically just a stool that tucks under your toilet and, when
>> pulled out, it allows you to raise your feet and mimic the angle of
>> squatting. Why? Well, because Edwards says that's the way we were
>> designed to do it.
>>
>> Indeed, medical studies agree with Edwards, with a 2003 report in the
>> Israel Journal of Medicine finding that squatting cuts down toilet
>> time from an average of 130 to 53 seconds and leads to less abdominal
>> strain. "Because of the anorectal angle being in a kinked position
>> while sitting you are forced to strain in order to move the bowels,
>> which is the main cause of haemorrhoids. While squatting the angle
>> straightens out allowing the faecal matter to eliminate quickly and
>> easily without straining."
>>
>> "Compare sitting on the toilet to a kinked garden hose, it just
>> doesn't work properly," explain the people at Squatty Potty. "In a
>> squatting posture the bend straightens out and defecation becomes
>> easier."
>>
>> In fact, colorectal cancer has a much higher incidence in the Western
>> world, and some believe - although conclusive medical studies haven't
>> yet to be completed - that sitting on the toilet could be a cause of
>> this.
>>
>> "The conventional sitting position deprives the colon of pressure from
>> the thighs and leaves the rectum choked by the puborectalis muscle,"
>> notes Jonathan Isbit of Nature's Platform, another squatting
>> entrepreneur. "These obstacles make elimination difficult and
>> incomplete - like trying to drive a car without releasing the parking
>> brake. Chronically incomplete evacuation, combined with the constant
>> extraction of water, causes wastes to adhere to the colon wall. The
>> passageway becomes increasingly constricted and the cells start to
>> suffocate. Prolonged exposure to toxins will often trigger malignant
>> mutations."
>>
>> Keen to try it? If buying a special device seems a bit excessive, a
>> simple everyday stool should suffice, and some health practitioners
>> say you can even just pile bricks or old magazines on either side of
>> your toilet (just make sure they're stable).
>>
>> http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/wellbeing/8157790/To-squat-or-not
>>
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