Sitting in the toilet increases your chances to get disorders like bloating, hemorrhoids and constipation. It is also because when you sit rather than squat, you often strain to fix the restricted ...

Which is why back in 2001, the Yale dropout designed Nature's Platform, a table elevated at a five-degree angle that allows the user to squat two inches above the toilet seat.

More than two generations after adopting the Western-style toilet, Indians with aching knees are finding out the advantages of the Indian latrine. In the olden days - especially in "Oriental" cultures ...

According to Mittal, his squat toilet design has an angle of elevation, which is easier to squat on. It can be seen as an ergonomic design development on a given design, he said.

They're the lucky ones. At the most basic level, this would mean they have either a squat toilet or commode with a flush. I live in an apartment building, built in 1980, that represents the next step.

“We never asked for a toilet. Now we are stuck with it,” said Natholi, 22, as he opened the squat toilet to show that it has not been used. His 62-year-old father peered in and shook his head.

Upasana Konidela has taken up the cause of promoting squatting during bowel movements. Indian toilets are considered healthy because they allow squatting the right way. close. Choose your channels.