"The support for squat toilets has come about ... Still, Sheth isn't suggesting everyone go out to buy a squat toilet. "The bottom line," he says, "is that if you're not constipated and you ...

Is the modern toilet at least partly to blame for problems like hemorrhoids and constipation? Some architects and doctors have posited that squatting may be the more natural position for us to do ...

shortening the time spent on the toilet and promoting a feeling of completely emptying the bowels. Earlier research also supports the effectiveness of squatting for easier bowel movements ...

The toilet features a handlebar for comfort and support. Before making its way ... Per Philips’s press release: [The squatting toilet] provokes discussion and evaluation of toilet taboos and ...

While Americans and other Westerners have always sat on the toilet, people in Asia and Africa squat when they go. In these cultures, people consider squatting to poop a more natural position than ...

That’s right, the toilets. The squat toilets to be exact. Even after several years of going to China, every time I see that hole in the ground toilet, my face is still filled with disappointment and ...

The ideal pooping position is a squat—a posture that toilet stools help simulate by raising a person’s feet while they’re sitting on the toilet. This posture helps to straighten the colon ...

A Japanese-style squat toilet is seen in a station in Fukuoka ... Japan's education ministry has also been supporting schools' transition to Western-style toilets through funds for school grounds ...

Which are the countries where you can't flush toilet paper, but are expected to throw it away instead? Should you be prepared to squat or sit? And where do you have to pay to use the facilities?

One contained a squat toilet and the other a bidet toilet. Scientists measured the emissions of bioaerosols containing S. aureus and E. coli under various flushing conditions and ventilation ...