My elementary school teacher told us once that Americans only poop once a week. The climate is colder in North America, so their intestines pack the poop together very densely such that they only need to poop once a week. She said you’d be sent to the doctor if you poop daily in America.
Is this true?
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.
No way lol, cheese makes up somewhere like 80% of my diet and I still shit at least once a day lmfao
If only. But sadly it’s never been less than twice a week for me, even when I was vegan.
I would think being vegan it would be easier to get fiber.
Fiber was fine, there’s just less waste.
I may not be your average American because I eat lots of veggies and beans and stuff but I’m once or twice a day, and they are solid sinkers.
Wait–once or twice in the same day or did you mean every one to two days for regular bm?
One or twice in the same day, usually once.
Is this why so many Europeans treat us like some different species
Having worked in fentanyl crisis towns and then have the neighboring towns proudly proclaim how great America is and how much FREEDOM we have… Totally understandable how Europeans look at us.
Hell, I’ll never forget the look my european coworker gave me when I told them we have a two week parental leave and it’s a fire-at-will state.
its quite obviously a troll post, but an entertaing one for sure
I sweaarrrr it isnt. She actually said that. I think it was in class 8 (idk if that’s called elementary in US, its called high school here.) when i changed schools. She was an english teacher. We had a lesson in our textbook about a girl who went from my country to America for education (before ww2 maybe ?) and the struggles she faced there. One of them was a faulty fireplace in her room which emitted a lot of smoke. Here, She started describing how cold it could get in the US, and in the process ended up saying ts.
We have a very large country extending from the tropics to the arctic. The California coast famously has a Mediterranean climate, the pacific northwest is more like the british isles, Hawaii is tropical and Florida is subtropical. The southwest is hot and dry, the southeast is warm and wet. However yes, the Midwest has a climate similar to Central and Eastern Europe, but with more tornadoes. Oh and the northeast has noreasters which are kinda like hurricanes, but they can be frozen and snow instead of rain. The Midwest, Mountain West, and Northeast used to get really cold in the winter, but climate change. Oh and Alaska is really fucking cold in the winter and really nice temperature in the summer.
Still doesn’t impact how often we poop. Which we do in climate controlled environments for about the past hundred years give or take.
One meal in, one meal out
Bait
USAians eat burgers, fries, and high-fructose corn syrup. They sit on the toilet trying to excrete their non-fluid bodily waste on average for 8-9 minutes due to a horrendous lack of fiber. More than 72% are overweight and 47% are obese.
If I had to guess, once a week sounds about right for the average Magastanian. Not sure about the rest.
In nursing school they taught us anything from 2x daily to 1x weekly is normal due mostly to variations in diet but with some influence from activity level, hydration, and genetics. Now I’m in practice that seems too long; I start getting nervous when my patients say it’s been 3-4 days. Personally I poop between 4x daily and once every 3 days depending on how angry my IBS is. I do HAVE to know what part of the world you’re in now though.
What the fuck am I reading
Lol
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.
Yeah that bit alone shows that teacher lacks basic reasoning skills. Are we talking about Arizona or Alaska? C’mon.
Bro, the one time I went to Mogadishu I was pooping left and right, several times a day.
Someone gave me a funny look and there I went again, pooping like I was getting paid for it!!
Poop tourism.
When I was younger I typically only shat about once a week, naturally (as in, without medical/medicine causes)
Every shit was a lincoln worthy log that i could have probably built a cabin with.
I miss those days.
I hate shitting 2-3 times a day now.
Do it on company time, and I will be calling it filling out paperwork.
until the company installs those insane slanted toilets that make it impossible to shit.
Then you use your bosses desk. Bonus points if you stick an ice cream cone in it.
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.
FWIW between once every three days up to three times a day is considered medically normal. If you’re consistently outside of this without obvious reason you should look into your digestive health.
It’s important to remember that teachers are on average less educated that the average citizen. My high school biology teacher told us boys with restless legs were just masturbating their anus in class…
After having worked IT in several schools over the last 20 years (both high schools and universities), I can honestly say that teachers are the most misinformed and least knowledgeable professionals I’ve ever worked with. Only principals are worse, and most I’ve met could probably be classified as mentally disabled.
It’s important to remember that teachers are on average less educated that the average citizen.
That is an incredibly bold statement to make. Can you back this up with sources ? Especially since you said it is important to remember. And where are you talking about ? Is this true everywhere ?
OP works in IT. They think anyone they have to work with is less intelligent than the average citizen.
My high school biology teacher told us boys with restless legs were just masturbating their anus in class…
i am trying this right now
I think this might be inadvertent selection bias. Because I know plenty of teachers that are very smart, but they are also the ones least likely to need IT’s services.
