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Keeping It Real: Conversations with Jillian Michaels

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The Importance of Squatting

In parts of the world, where they still today eat. a plant-based diet, there's not what we consider Western sanitation. In Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, people are squatting to go. The toilet is a hole in the ground. Squatting is the ideal position because it increases intra-dombra pressure. It allows the sphincter to open more easily. And when they wipe, which is sometimes a leaf or recycled cardboard or what is available, there is very little on the toilet paper.

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