Don't sit on the toilet for more than 10 minutes, doctors warn
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I've never sat for more than three weeks on the toilet, so I'm good.
Separately, but still related, I've been thrilled by the rapid adoption of bidets and rarely see a friend's bathroom that doesn't have one. What are the chances we start to get bidets in hotels and restaurants? What the hold up?
You are living in a bubble.
IME the home ones can be finicky in terms of reliably resetting and fail more easily, but i still like the water savings.
2. if where you live does not have a "water cycle shortage", it's really not necessary. North America is huge and nowhere near as densely populated as Europe or Japan.
when I visited Hong Kong a loooong time ago, we were told that the water system for the toilets used salt/ocean water. Hong Kong is a small island, that was driven by their need. if you don't need it, you don't need it.
rapid adoption of bidets might increase public health/comfort by some measures, but it actually also increases water use. I feel you are influenced as much by familiarity/fashion as by a coherent water usage strategy
(and it would no longer be aerosol, it would be pooposol)
If this was true, you'd also not clean your hands by washing them, only aerosolizing the dirt from your hands
Having just been to India, and the Middle East, they have sprayers next to every toilet. When you go into one of these public stalls, there is often water everywhere. All over the seat, all over the floor. It takes a minute of cleanup just to get to the point where you can sit.
I don't know how people aren't walking out of these with wet clothes. I imagine you take your pants off and hang them and put your sandals in the corner... but I don't think that's for me.
I imagine they may use a piece of paper to avoid pushing the buttons directly.
My assumption is that the lack of awareness would be part of the reason for public toilets to not use them. It's often not clear which button to use, so people just push one at random. We have a hard enough time getting people to flush at all, so adding decisions into the mix doesn't great.
In men's bathrooms, the assumption is probably that a urinal will be used for #1, so it's a safe bet that the stalls are mostly used for #2 (at least by design of the overall bathroom). With this in mind, having a dual flush seems like an unnecessary extra cost.
Instead of having two buttons, there are designs that do the smaller flush by lifting the handle instead of pushing it down. That way people who don't know about it always get a full flush and the people that do can use the smaller one.
Also, a lot of toilets now look normal but are dual-flush - you just have to hold the handle for a longer flush.
These people are likely to wash their hands afterwards then think nothing of answering their smartphones when preparing food. I'm surprised that health officials don't make a much bigger deal of the fact.
Anyway, if you wish to inflame your cellphone hygiene nightmare, look no further and behold: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199209033271004
I say that not as an obsessive hand-washer or an anti-germ-freak like Howard Hughes but because it's just commonsense. It also comes from being taught as a child both by my parents and at school to wash my hands before eating food and to be hygienic around food preparation such as washing fruit before eating it. That early training has meant that if say I were to sit at the dinner table without washing my hands I'd have a feeling of being dirty and have the urge to wash them.
I'm not alone, many others have similar a experience for the same reason. That said, I suspect the percentage ought to be much higher than it actually is (simple observation tells me that).
Again, I'm careful but not obsessive about hygiene and I like most others have occasional minor lapses such as eating an apple or picking strawberries from a punnet without first washing them. Nevertheless, I'm aware of the fact and feel somewhat guilty for not having done so.
Similarly, I'm always aware of the many almost futile practices people adopt in the name of hygiene. For example, the commonplace and token-like habit of shop assistants with disposable gloves on preparing say bread rolls and then handling money especially so notes (which are particularly dirty and germ-laden) and not changing to a new pair before the next customer (the same can be said about them handling their smartphones at the same time).
Long gone are coins with high silver content that were in part self-cleansing (Ag has strong antimicrobial properties).
BTW, if one takes the effort to wipe one's phone with a tissue with a few drops of ethanol (or rubbing alcohol—isopropanol for those in the US) on it then it serves a dual purpose, greasy fingerprints are removed and one's screen is clean—and the alcohol kills most of the microbes.
It's interesting to note I purchased a Vietnamese-style bread roll for lunch today (presumably the owners were originally from Vietnam), and noticed the woman serving me had only one protective glove on—on her right hand. What was particularly noticeable was that she prepared the roll with her gloved hand and put it in a new paper bag without her other glove-less hand touching anything (tongs acted as her second set of fingers). At the cash-register I handed her a $50 note and rather clumsily with her left hand she deposited my note and returned notes and coins as change without using her gloved hand at all. Clearly, she was very conscious of hygiene. Why her and rarely others? Incidentally it was a small family-owned shop so the woman wasn't just acting out the hygiene requirements of say large chains like McDonald's.
Moreover, as COVID has diminished I've noticed very few now wear masks but the vast percentage that still do are Asians (BTW, I'm in Australia which is a mixture of every nationality).
Take from that what you will.
If say you've the highly contagious and all-to-common Noro virus, and even if you've washed your hands thoroughly and then touch your contaminated smartphone you'll go on to contaminate almost every surface you touch, food and everything else.
Why don't people still understand this given that it's had such huge airing in recent years (as it's such a significant problem on cruise ships)?
That people still don't is the reason why medical and health authorities should be much more proactive in this area.
That's the whole rationale behind public health and hygiene policies (until recently that was taken for granted).
I wonder why that attitude changed…oh yeah, I remember now…it’s when our public health authorities started making decisions based on political tribalism instead of trying to actually protect people in the one moment in modern times when they they should have shined for us.
You don’t get to fail that bigly and retain your reputation.
I imagine that recommendation does take into account water content in food, though.
Most people get 20-30% of their water intake from food. But they never seem to explain this in articles. It's a great example of how health/science journalism has been failing us for generations.
The initial bolos of water is effective at waking me up for the day. That it is not furthering my chemical dependence on caffeine is a double bonus to maintaining hydration.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-...
The ones related to your butthole being out and lower than your spread cheeks, probably not.
Unless you know some wild programming tricks that I don't.
Resting squats fixed my knees.
Or if you're in Asia, just get an Asian style squat toilet.
The only time there isn't any splash is in a proper Asian squat toilet, as it doesn't hold water. The output can be drained away as often as needed, again with no splash.
I fondly remember the tradition of a stack of books on the back of the toilet.
Sort of the same issue with phones, but every book or magazine has a distinct end.
In addition, there is also the issue of worsening constipation and making it needlessly harder to produce output.
Where did you get that? It's not true at all. In fact, cleaning a squat toilet doesn't even require a flush, only a drain.
On the contrary, when using the Western toilet, the dick touches the toilet surface, and this chronically spreads urinary infections up the urinary tract, starting at the urethra, all the way to the kidneys. This is not just theoretical; it actually happens, and only with the Western toilet.
The full-on squat toilet may be excessive (and has its own problems), but at least the Western toilet should be low enough that the hips and knees are at acute angles. I keep seeing the opposite.
In contrast, with Western toilets, I always have the issue of the dick touching the toilet surface, seriously risking chronic urinary tract infections, spreading all the way from the urethra to the kidneys. This is not just theoretical; it actually happens, chronically so, and only with the Western toilet.