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That’s silly. North America is huge. In the US South, it’s very common for people to poop every day. In fact, you usually wouldn’t even talk to a doctor about it. But as you get to the northern states and into Canada, it’s so cold that people don’t poop at all!
So the 1 day thing is probably just someone averaging out the numbers.
Pooping Georg, who lives in a cave and poops 10,000 times a day, is an outlier adn should not be counted
Georg washes out the canyons and floods the plains with nutrients. He single handedly sustains a nation. How dare you.
They say when Pooping Georg eats borscht, the rivers run red. Some have taken this to mean that Pooping Georg is dying (and thus our fertile soil) however, it's just beets.
That has to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard. I'm veggie, if I don't poop every day there's a fucking problem.
I just accepted it as a simple fact didnt think about it anymore lol
I wonder why she told us that.
One of the delights of being a schoolteacher I guess. Just make stuff up and watch em go.
That's a horrible abuse of power...
Your teacher is either fucking with you or shouldn't be allowed to teach.
Bowel movements vary by person. From 3 times a day down to once every 3 days. Less than once every 3 days is considered concerning medically, but not necessarily a problem.
Your teacher was the one full of shit.
Thought this was c/shittyasklemmy. It's not, so here's an earnest response. I'm from the US, but have spent a bunch of time living outside of the country. Every guy I know usually poops daily, but a lot of women only poop every couple of days. It doesn't have anything to do with the cold.
Fun somewhat related story time. I once had a colleague travel to the US from South East Asia. He went to our boss a few days into the trip and said he needed to go to the hospital. My boss eventually convinced him to explain the problem. His poop was a solid mass instead of liquid. Dude had never had solid shit before. It's possible an anecdote like this is what gave your teacher that idea.
It's possible an anecdote like this is what gave your teacher that idea.
Maybe.
But I also remember that she was a little xenophobic. Maybe she just made that up on the spot lol
Americans are trained from childhood to shit only once a week so it takes away less of their work time.
This starts in school where you need a signed permit to go shit, and continues in the work place where shitting during work hours can get you in trouble.
Shitting frequency is monitored through comically wide gaps in the bathroom stalls.
American here, I've shit three times today alone
That’s sad. I always try to shit with someone. Sometimes you just need to be held.
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Are you still in elementary school? If not, you can't possibly still believe this
The climate is colder in North America
Compared to where, exactly? Mogadishu? Hammerfest? Because North America can be hotter and colder than both of those. Also not sure how it affects pooping.
The average is 7.1 times a week. Clinically average can range from 3x a day to once every 3 days. What's important is how well they're formed. Such as the Bristol stool scale - you want something in the middle.
I've always found scatology interesting. If you have anymore questions, feel free to let uhm rip.
I've heard some fascinating propaganda about Americans, but this is new. What about the colder parts of Europe or Asia? Why only North America? Does this only occur above a certain latitude? If you move from a warmer climate to a cooler climate, does your body naturally adapt and how long does it take? With global warming, will everyone suddenly start shitting more and think they're dying? The sewage systems will explode because they won't be able to adapt to millions of people suddenly shitting daily instead of weekly.
That's a shitpost if I've ever heard one. That being said, assuming you're not joking; We probably shit more frequently than y'all because of the terrible food we eat.
If you only shit once a week, you need to go to the doctor and change your diet.
Yes, especially among those active on the fediverse. That’s why we celebrate no shit november
Your teacher was either an idiot or fucking with you lol
Was this on April 1?
Actually, the high-fat low-protein diet of the average american makes it so everyone only has constant diarrhea. There's always complaints about going into the bathroom during working hours because of the smell and the constant need to evacuate all the fat
The average American diet is excessive in protein, very slightly above recommendations regarding total fat(most aren't getting enough DHA and EPA, though), refined carbs are also excessive, and fiber is typically lacking along with complex carbs.
Most people should be fine adjusting to a high fat diet if they allow enough time for their body to get used to producing the bile necessary for digestion (this takes many months, typically.) But most people don't enjoy such a diet and a good third will do very poorly from lack of bile/indigestion (some people just have genetically poor fat digestion. Sometimes linked to low bile that doesn't respond to diet.)
If people had chronic diarrhea like you suggest they would likely suffer from severe dehydration and that could eventually become life-threatening.
I suppose your teacher read a statistic that Americans are more likely to be constipated due to more cheese and less veggies and fruits in their diets, and constipated people on average poop less, and just simplified this trivia in their long-term memory and lost the details.
Your teacher needs to get more fiber
Your elementary school teacher should have been fired.
I have a friend that's a "fruitarian" (he's been convinced that humans are frugivores by the influencers.) He says he loves pooping, which he says he does about 6 movements a day.
I've tried to explain that we're omnivores and high fruit diets are clinically proven to not be healthy long-term... Dude is skin and bones (he's literally wasting) and won't listen. He'll eat some veggies, but only raw. He avoids anything cooked in anyway because 'cooking stuff creates toxins and causes disease/cancer and other animals don't cook their food.'
Nutritional science suggests 9-12 servings of fruits and vegetables daily, but the limit for fruit is 4-5 servings (while there's no drawback to additional vegetables, but it's also not significantly (statistically) healthier). Fructose does funny things to metabolism for reasons we don't fully understand (many claim it acts like a hormone), but the fiber seems to help, though. Juices should be highly limited and basically treated as refined sugar. Science also strongly suggests properly cooking foods....
Eating lots of(or exclusively) raw fruit will most likely result in poorly/partially digested diarrhea, roughly apple sauce consistency and generally still looks more like food than poo(which describes my fruitarian friend's BMs, which he doesn't find problematic, apparently he considers it a feature and not a bug -- short intestinal transit time is point of pride for him, for some reasons, basically... he thinks if his poop stays in him too long it becomes toxic, so he thinks a normal healthy stool is toxic).
Long term risks include severe nutrient deficiencies that may carry with them permanent physiological damage. Yet he still isn't convinced by the numerous clinical studies on this ... Then again, he also thinks WiFi is unhealthy for some asinine/dubious reasons so he turns off his router at night so it doesn't disturb his sleep (his roommates plug it right back in, lol.)
He used to eat normally and supported Bernie Sanders. Now he's technically a raw vegan(he calls himself/humans in general frugivores) and believes so much dumb shit(anti vac, no longer respects trans pronouns, etc), and obviously he started supporting MAGA/Trump, so we don't talk much anymore.
The problem with realizing that you have cognitive impairments is that you have cognitive impairments. It's a vicious cycle I've sadly seen in multiple raw vegans. The longer they do it, the crazier(delusional, disordered) they get. Like my fruitarian friend doing weeks long water fasts as well.... He looks like someone with severe anorexia/bulimia. But oh boy does he pack it in! And within hours it's squirting out the other end. He's one of those people that don't fully close the bathroom door. So everyone can hear the squirts and splashes! Still less annoying than being lectured to about eating healthy by someone as clueless as they are confident.... Plus his 'shit' doesn't really stink, as it's not digested. Another point of pride for him.
We've evolved to eat cooked food. Please cook your vegetables, people. Salads are fine but most of our veggies will be very much more digestible and nutritious after being cooked! Some ruffage/raw plants are beneficial, though. Other animals need to chew chud basically all day to meet basic nutritional needs from vegetation. We have cooking, and it's awesome.
IIRC normal shitting intervals is 3x a day to 3x a week
Common misconception. They only poop when Trump tells them to. If they don't wait til instructed ICE comes and shoots them.
Land of the free, ladies and gents.
Nope. I shit every day, in the morning, on a schedule.
Your teacher was full of shit. Sure the Standard American Diet (SAD) is terrible and leaves fiber much to be desired, but not every American sticks to the SAD. I'm sure other countries have people that have shit diets and get constipated too, not just the US.
Generalizations don't help anyone.
