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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on September 05, 2010, 11:36:50 AM
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Oh my.
Swede (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-04-10 11:29 AM
Original message
Don't Just Sit There! How bathroom posture affects your health.
I had never heard of such a concern.
That may sound like a bunch of Internet quackery, but there's now some empirical evidence for the claim that defecation posture affects your body. The more extreme assertions about squatting—that it prevents cancer, for example—remain untested. But when it comes to hemorrhoids—a painful swelling of the veins in the anal canal that affects half of all Americans—new research suggests that you may want to get your butt off the toilet.
http://www.slate.com/id/2264657/
dkf (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-04-10 12:16 PM
Response to Original message
1. I understand the Japanese used to have toilets that worked like this.
I think they've modernized since then though.
Codeine (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-04-10 12:26 PM
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2. I just strap on some adult diapers and let fly.
I take my health very seriously.
Warpy (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-04-10 12:32 PM
THE DEFROCKED WARPED PRIMITIVE, #09 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
Response to Original message
3. Squat toilets are impractical for old folks but having a step stool to drag up and rest one's feet on really does get the process moving a little more quickly. Just elevating the feet six inches off the floor can make a difference.
Figured that one out years ago.
The toilets that are still in evidence at old Roman baths were all sit toilets and not squat toilets. So if you want to blame poor bowel posture on anybody, I guess you'd have to start there.
Liberal Veteran (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-04-10 01:47 PM
Response to Reply #3
4. Hah! Now I have a topic for my thesis.
How sit toilets destroyed the Roman Empire.
Warpy (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-04-10 03:16 PM
THE DEFROCKED WARPED PRIMITIVE, #09 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
Response to Reply #4
7. They were not only sit toilets they were right out in the open, no sissy cubicles for our Romans. A trench of running water ran under them, probably discharging into the river everybody washed their clothing in. They not only did gang bathing, they did gang shitting.
Okay, story here.
When franksolich went to the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants with free medical care for all, while he had heretofore been acquainted with outhouses (although not very intimately), he was totally unprepared for what he saw here.
It freaked me; the outhouses were just holes in the ground, no bench to sit on.
No way.
As incredible as it might sound, the socialists had yet (the mid-1990s) to invent commodes with seats, something that surely goes clear back to the ancient Babylonian or Egyptian times, at least.
One just squatted.
No way.
franksolich is proud to announce that even though he spent about a year and a half in the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants with free medical care for all, he never once--not one single solitary time--squatted. He just held it in until he could find a porcelain seat with water in the bottom.
franksolich has legendary intestinal fortitude.
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Dunno about the squatting thing. I'm tall and long legged. Normal toilets are a problem for me. Stuff doesn't seem to move and body parts go numb. My whole life I had always went for the handicapped stalls because of their chair height seating. I now own one of my own that I actually moved with me when we moved into this house. I took the old blue bowl from here back to the old place.
I don't squat at all for anything.
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franksolich is proud to announce that even though he spent about a year and a half in the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants with free medical care for all, he never once--not one single solitary time--squatted. He just held it in until he could find a porcelain seat with water in the bottom.
Whenever I go camping, I fashion a toilet seat from stripped saplings and lashing, and then I lash it to a tree. The tree supporting the lashed seat is selected not only for the level of privacy that it offers, but must also to be downwind from the campsite.
The wife tells me I am very popular on camps, due to my high demand skill.
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wow --- this is quite a crappy topic....
:rotf: :tongue:
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Sit, and push. Honestly, how much harder can it be? Do you DUmmies need a manual for everything?
(http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s233/ignitethefire65/toilet-in-japan.jpg)
(http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s233/ignitethefire65/toilet_brush.jpg)
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I remember reading a tale about how, some years ago, a group of missionaries tried to civilize obama's kin folk in some outer region in Africa. obama's kin folk were defecating in the river. obama's Brother's, Sister's, Aunt's, Uncle's, Niece's and Nephew's were getting ill from the bacteria in the water. Someone built an outhouse, complete with porcelain throne. After a while, obama's kin folk used it as a flower pot and the tribe went back to defecating in the river.
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I remember reading a tale about how, some years ago, a group of missionaries tried to civilize obama's kin folk in some outer region in Africa. obama's kin folk were defecating in the river. obama's Brother's, Sister's, Aunt's, Uncle's, Niece's and Nephew's were getting ill from the bacteria in the water. Someone built an outhouse, complete with porcelain throne. After a while, obama's kin folk used it as a flower pot and the tribe went back to defecating in the river.
And now their kinsman is defecating on his Constitution.
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When franksolich went to the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants with free medical care for all, while he had heretofore been acquainted with outhouses (although not very intimately), he was totally unprepared for what he saw here.
franksolich is proud to announce that even though he spent about a year and a half in the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants with free medical care for all, he never once--not one single solitary time--squatted. He just held it in until he could find a porcelain seat with water in the bottom.
franksolich has legendary intestinal fortitude.
Anyone unabashedly pretentious enough to refer to themselves in the third person is certainly a friend of mine. :bow:
The HollywoodNeoCon is thoroughly impressed.
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Anyone unabashedly pretentious enough to refer to themselves in the third person is certainly a friend of mine. :bow:
The HollywoodNeoCon is thoroughly impressed.
Frank has written some interestING stories of his travels on here.
edited to correct syntax
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Seriously, is there nothing scared anymore?
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Seriously, is there nothing scared anymore?
You mean like this?
:o :o :o
:tongue:
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You mean like this?
:o :o :o
:tongue:
:lmao:
What won't they discuss over there?
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Seriously, is there nothing scared anymore?
Let's try this again.
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Dunno about the squatting thing. I'm tall and long legged. Normal toilets are a problem for me. Stuff doesn't seem to move and body parts go numb. My whole life I had always went for the handicapped stalls because of their chair height seating. I now own one of my own that I actually moved with me when we moved into this house. I took the old blue bowl from here back to the old place.
I don't squat at all for anything.
Frank, I believe you have answered one of the great mysteries of my and my Hubbys life.
We worked together for 22 years at the plant and we had one question about the other workers that we could not answer.
Why was it that when a temp agency sent in workers that were not from America did we suddenly find sneaker prints on the toilet seats in both mens and woman's rooms.
This may also explain why people our age from a 3 rd. world country were more energetic then us and could work at 3 jobs 7 days a week.
Could it be this simple that voiding is as important as ingesting.?
I know the down fall of Napoleon was hemorrhoids, he could not sit his horse at Waterloo.
Interesting topic Frank, It would make sense that people with bowl syndromes that cause them to void 3-4 times in a couple of hours may in fact be caused by some kink of the bowel by the posture of the person.
Lots of us with knee or weight problems would find it difficult to squat, so the poster that suggested a foot stool may be on to something.
It is certainly worth a try if one has any kind of stomach, bowel or bladder problems.
For us that craft this could be a challenge to of how to construct a foot riser that is Pee proof for the men.
Have to be light enough and small enough to move for cleaning purposes, something that will hug the toilet itself.
What the Hell Frank, when you have a tummy ache life is miserable.
If a simple change in posture will help more then expensive drugs---get on your thinking cap and find a way to experiment.
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Sit, and push. Honestly, how much harder can it be? Do you DUmmies need a manual for everything?
(http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s233/ignitethefire65/toilet-in-japan.jpg)
(http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s233/ignitethefire65/toilet_brush.jpg)
HA HA!!! :cheersmate:
Actually, I do think they do need a manual for everything. That is why they welcome the gubberment telling them when/what/where to go. :mental: :bird:
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Let's try this again.
That's why I included the :o :o :o , thundley . . . Oh--decent thumping of the Cubs today. The middle of February isn't that far away . . . ::)
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Let's try this again.
Oh my! I swear sometimes I'm a blond and not a brunette LOL.
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That's why I included the :o :o :o , thundley . . . Oh--decent thumping of the Cubs today. The middle of February isn't that far away . . . ::)
BG didn't catch on, thus the need to emphasize the word a little more. The Cubs have been thumped so many times this year that they should have battered balls syndrome.
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Anyone unabashedly pretentious enough to refer to themselves in the third person is certainly a friend of mine. :bow:
The HollywoodNeoCon is thoroughly impressed.
Actually, I've taken a great deal of flak for this "third person" thing.
But I can't help myself; I was taught this way.
In some cases, it might sound as if I am boasting about something (when in fact I am merely stating a fact), and so I use "franksolich" rather than "I" or "me," so as to take the edge off of that. I am merely stating a fact, not bragging.
I unhesitatingly use "I" or "me" if a comment reflects neutrally or even negatively on me, but I won't use "I" or "me" if something looks like I'm saying it just to make myself look good.
I had a great 5th-grade teacher.