don’t be shy if you like – because
smoking cigarettes is not harmful
smoking helps us deal with anxiety
it helps us calm our nerves ladies and
but that’s what people believe even a
few decades ago now we know addiction to
smoking can be harmful even if we are
maintaining a healthy lifestyle are you
addicted to anything let me ask you
three questions did you drive here
do you work seated on a chair do you sit
down for more than three hours a day if
you answered yes to any of these chances
are high that you might be addicted to
sitting and just like people thought
smoking was harmless people think
sitting is harmless a few years ago my
brother felt a sharp pain in his back in
the lumbar region he went to the doctors
the doctor scanned his spine and found
out that the lumbar disc in the lower
spinal region had become dislocated and
they were pinching on the spinal nerves
causing the pain the doctors asked him
how did you do this to yourself do you
lift heavy weights my brother said I
used to lift some heavy weights at some
point but now all I do is sit on a chair
and work on a computer all day the
doctor said
aha really want you to see for yourself
what happened to my brother when we are
standing the muscles in our lower back
and the core are engaged in maintaining
the spine in a neutral position as soon
as we sit down on a chair with a
backrest those muscles are disengaged
and the whole weight of the upper body
is concentrated on the lower lumbar
region of the spine my brother was doing
it for six hours a day five days a week
people addicted to sitting might be
doing it for seven days a week people
who do not have any history of spinal
injury also complain of back pain from
prolonged sitting researchers at Cornell
University say to maintain a healthy
spine and to keep the blood flow going
in our body we don’t need to do jumping
jacks at her work all we need to do is
take a posture break every 20 to 30
minutes and technology helps us do that
every time we get a call we can just
walk while talking however I was looking
at a resting posture that would not
cause any damage to my spine while I am
sitting now I came across a posture
known as squatting squatting does not
compress the spinal region while we are
squatting the spine is stretched and the
weight of the upper body is distributed
evenly between the legs the hips and the
core a perfect resting posture however
that
is not the only thing that happened when
I started squatting a question crossed
my mind a person that was a turning
point in my life the question was is it
time to poop I said I’m in the library
it’s not time to poop then I research
into why squatting fells like pooping I
found out that squatting actually helps
bowel movements bowel movements are
probably the last thing people want to
talk about in breeding a public health
campaign had to be discontinued because
the newspapers would not print key words
like bowel movements during the heydays
of the USPS program a toilet problem in
the spacecraft was not fixed for ten
years because no one wanted to talk
about poop it was not until 1968 that
dr. Bay pleaded with everyone to get
over this making and giggling and
sincerely solve what had become a
serious issue because the astronauts had
to wear oxygen masks in the spacecraft
to save themselves from the orders
coming from the toilet
we had squatting toilets at a house in
India and I revolt it with my mother ma
why do we squat down to poop when the
whole world is sitting now why don’t we
have the beautiful sitting toilets like
the ones in the malls and the hotels my
mother replied son people need to go
down to do
I would not accept the idea because my
mind was closed and full of ideas that
what other people were doing was right
what I am asking you to do today is open
your minds and if you don’t like any
idea you can throw it out however if you
like an idea you can keep it imagine
this is our rectum this is where the
poop is stored in our body believe me or
not making this was much easier than
finding a free-to-use image of the
rectum no one wants a rectum to be seen
in public however we will see right now
why it is important that we talk about
this unconventional ideas the rectum is
attached by your pube or rectal ease
muscle to our hips when we are standing
this muscle is stretched and it forms a
kink in our rectum this king is
important to stop the poop from coming
out when we don’t want it to even when
we are sitting this muscle is not
relaxed if we try to eliminate when
seated we have to put strain on our
rectum by holding air it is only when we
squat down that this muscle is relaxed
and the rectum straightens out making it
a natural position and effortless to
eliminate our waste sitting down while
an innovation has been shown to be a
major cause for a disease known as
hemorrhoids or piles
which is associated with severe peel and
blood loss during elimination squatting
has been shown to be an effective method
of preventing hemorrhoids the good news
is that we don’t need to renovate our
whole bathroom to trice and squat we can
think about it if garbage is not thrown
out of our houses
do we feel healthy similarly if waste
matter and toxins are not eliminated out
of our bodies properly can we be healthy
if you lose your money you may get it
back if you lose your friends you may
still get them back if the friendship is
true however if you lose your health are
you sure you can get it back my brother
knew karate when he was in school he
could jump through hoops now he has to
wear a belt to support his spine the
choice is yours today if you want to sit
down
to addiction or if you want to stand up
and if you may all stand up because we
have been sitting down for too long and
may we all stand up to ideas that are what share