For Best Toilet Health: Squat
By Dr. Mercola

Is the Western toilet in part responsible for
problems like hemorrhoids, constipation, IBD
(Inflammatory Bowel Disease), appendicitis, and even heart attacks?

If you examine the data, there is a great deal of evidence this is true. The modern toilet has
required us to change the position we use to
evacuate our bowels, which changes the
anatomy of… well, a poop, to put it bluntly.

Infants instinctively squat to defecate, as does the majority of the world's population. But somehow the West was convinced that sitting is more civilized.

Sitting on the modern Thomas Crapper-style sit-down toilet is designed to place your knees at a 90-degree angle to your abdomen. However, the time-honored natural squat position places the knees much closer to your torso, and this position actually changes the spacial relationships of your intestinal organs and musculature, optimizing the forces involved in defecation.

Sitting to evacuate your bowel requires you to apply additional force (straining), which has some unwanted biological effects, including a temporary disruption in cardiac flow...

more: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/12/03/toilet-squatting-position.aspx

So we should resort to pit-laterine toilets now. Na wao. How can babies that cant stand possibly squat

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