Grow Youthful: How to Slow Your Aging and Enjoy Extraordinary Health
Grow Youthful: How to Slow Your Aging and Enjoy Extraordinary Health

Ailment: Constipation

Remedy: Squat to eliminate


Squat rather than sit on the toilet. This is the natural position for humans. Piles, haemorrhoids, varicose veins, distended colon.





Comment posted by Amanda of Canberra, ACT, Australia on 26 September 2011 at 14:40       506

YES
Without a special seat you can still get close to the squat position by picking up your heels, leaning forward and putting your weight in the balls of your feet. If you need a brief push to get things moving push into your toes/ball of foot, not your butt veins. (if you need to push any more, don't!... buy an enema kit (uses water to ease things out) or a non-medicated suppository made from glycerol from your local chemist.



Comment posted by Maria Louisa of Nevada City, CA, USA on 26 March 2011 at 6:9       451

YES
To squat or not to squat? That is the question. Actually, your toileting technique may also have an effect on urinary incontinence. There is a lot of evidence to show that the Asian technique of using the toilet goes a long way to maintaining better pelvic health than the Western technique, says professor Ajay Rane, James Cook University of Medicine (Australia) consultant urogynecologist and pelvic reconstructive surgeon. According to Rane, a study done in Hong Kong showed that city-dwelling women had more urinary incontinence and bowel problems than country dwelling women. "The basic differences in these women were not their body weight, or how many children they had, but their toileting habits," he says. In general, women in urban areas use the "sit" method while the rural women use "squat" toilets. "Basically, we believe that the study suggests squatting causes the angle of the pelvis to relax much better and give better pressure. When you are sitting, you do not have the right relaxation of the muscles and the angle of the pelvis," he says. "I strongly believe that the squatting technique has tremendous beneficial effects on the pelvis."



Question posted by David Niven Miller of Perth, WA, Australia on 30 April 2010 at 15:12       129

Hmmmmm. If you are renovating your bathroom, will the resale value be higher with a squat toilet?