Bowel Movement

Are you sitting comfortably? Many people are not – and there are some who insist the way we’ve been going to the toilet is all wrong - Alex Blasdel

Bowel Movement
Bowel Movement

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Bowel movement: the push to change the way you poo

The popularity of the Squatty Potty, and the existence of its many rivals and imitators, is one of the clearest signs of an anxiety that’s been growing in the west for the past decade: that we have been “pooping all wrong”. In recent years, some version of that phrase has headlined articles from outlets as diverse as Men’s Health, Jezebel, the Cleveland Clinic medical centre and even Bon Appétit. By giving up the natural squatting posture bequeathed to us by evolution and taking up our berths on the porcelain throne, the proposition goes, we have summoned a plague of bowel trouble. Untold millions suffer from haemorrhoids – in the US alone, some estimates run to 125 million – and millions…

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 Bowel movement: the push to change the way you poo

Are you sitting comfortably? Many people are not – and there are some who insist the way we’ve been going to the toilet is all wrong

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