Behind The ErgoCleanse "Ergonomic" Design
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James A. Clifton Center for Digestive Diseases
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics:
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The squatting position is the best for having a bowel movement. Elevate your feet on a footstool in front of the toilet or bend forward so that your abdomen rests against your thighs.
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The Importance of Squatting
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by Dr. William Welles
The History of the Toilet
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It is my sincere belief that one of the bowel's greatest enemies in our civilized society is the ergonomic nightmare called the toilet. "Uncivilized" societies have always squatted. In a natural squatting position, the bowel is supported and aligned by the thighs' contact with the abdominal wall, and many significant health benefits result.
The toilet first became popular in England in approximately 1850, and its use soon spread throughout the civilized world. It spread quickly because it came on the scene at the same time as plumbing, which allowed for clean disposal of what had previously been embarrassingly stored in chamber pots or dumped into the street.
The toilet was originally designed by Joseph Bramah, a cabinet maker, and improved upon by Thomas Crapper, a plumber. These were not men of medicine, and did not recognize the mechanical advantage that squatting offers the body. Nor was the general public aware, which is why using the toilet became the norm before we knew it.
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It was not until the early 1900's that wise doctors, faced with dramatically increased incidence of disease, questioned conventions of the time and the convention most suspect was the toilet.
In one book written in 1924 called The Culture of the Abdomen, the author quotes leading medical authorities of the time who were very outspoken about the toilet's faulty design and ensuing health consequences. He states, "It would have been better that the contraption had killed its inventor before he launched it under humanity's buttocks."
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Finally a solution!
The natural squatting position worked just fine before civilization once again "improved" on what was already perfect. The ErgoCleanse returns the user to the correct ergonomic position for evacuation of the bowels and provides a comfortable way to eliminate the build-up that civilized eating and civilized sitting has imposed upon the civilized colon. The ErgoCleanse is only a new technology in that it offers a way in this day and age to rectify a medically unsound technology introduced circa 1850, by a cabinet maker and a plumber.
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