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 used to shit more like twice a day during grad school (probably because of all the junkfood like living off microwave burritos lol) but then I shifted to about once a day and was mildly concerned about it.
When I looked it up to see if it were symptomatic of low fiber or something else… color me surprised to find dozens of reddit posts talking about how people only shit once every 3-4 days. I was stunned.
Then I realized a lot of those posts were made by Americans, and it reminded me of someone in college who once reasoned that him living off McDonald’s for three meals a day was “sustainable” because he counted calories religiously… not taking into account that he was essentially living off fiberless food whatsoever lmao
So basically…