Do Americans really only shit once a week? (literature.cafe)

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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?

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[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 13 hours ago

Frutarian should not only be eating culinary high sugar fruits. Gourds, tomatoes, etc are all fair game. Anything where you technically do not need to kill the plant to get the food should be on it so nuts to. I would argue milk and eggs should be on it but most people keep it to just plants. Kinda funny because with milk and eggs it would not be hard to keep it relatively healthy.

[-] Krusty@quokk.au 2 points 7 hours ago

He seemed to like fruit the riper it got. His favorite bananas would be brown and mush (he called it 'like candy, so good.'). I tried it. Tasted funky and fermented, like ethanol(and other fuesal alcohols). I think he might have been getting lowkey drunk/buzzed off overly ripe fermented fruit, which would definitely provoke some mad squirts.

But then again this guy didn't believe in germ theory. I showed him microscopic media of bacteria and viruses and fungi, even white blood cells doing what they do best (seek and destroy invaders!) He claimed it was all fake news/CGI/AI... We even made kombucha (I taught him how.) Which he enjoyed.... Which I guess it's just magic to him and not basic fermentation....

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 4 hours ago

yeah he does not even understand the moral basis of the diet that I think kinda came from jains.

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