...and start using Japanese style toilets, or just a squat-down, no-touch chamber pot--like in the old days before the perversion of "bidet" into what is commonly seen in western countries and called a toilet. A bidet originally was a way to sit down and clean oneself with clean water after taking a dump in a chamber pot. Somehow, people got lazy along about the year 1900 and began dumping in their bidets and using toilet paper, throwing that in the bidet as well. Then came the pull-chain flush box (which worked for the Japanese style just as well).

People have got it all (well, at least substantially) wrong about the Japanese diet. The older Japanese generation lives ten years longer than Americans for TWO reasons, not only diet (although eating only 35% of the refined sugar Americans do is surely part of the situation). My relatively informed guess is that half of the ten years is accounted for by intake--what and how it goes in--and the other five years is accounted for by outtake--how it goes out.

Sitting while taking a dump is something thousands of generations of our ancestors never had the ability to do. They could only squat and dump. Sorry, folks who are hooked on sit-downs and can't conceive of any other way to go: anatomically and physiologically we are still what our ancestors were; and squat they did. A solitary century of sit-down dumping (spitting in the faces of our ancestors) doesn't quite alter the cumulative primate physiology of a million years of squat dumping.

So squat we will do--unless you want to die at least five years younger from complications of hemorrhoids, inguinal hernias (from trying to force out with muscles what should fall out by gravity and the natural abdominal compression created by squatting), incomplete elimination (which simply means undue retention of rotting fecal matter--and, no, the gas propulsion generated by this retained rotting fecal matter doesn't compensate for your failure to squat).

My personal advice is not to be so bigoted as to think you couldn't have been potty trained wrong (unless your parents were uncommonly wise--or Japanese).