{"id":89739,"date":"2019-04-19T11:42:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T18:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/this-could-be-the-biggest-advance-in-toilet-design-in-over-a-hundred-years"},"modified":"2019-04-19T11:42:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T18:42:27","slug":"this-could-be-the-biggest-advance-in-toilet-design-in-over-a-hundred-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/this-could-be-the-biggest-advance-in-toilet-design-in-over-a-hundred-years","title":{"rendered":"This could be the biggest advance in toilet design in over a hundred years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-could-be-the-biggest-advance-in-toilet-design-in-over-a-hundred-years.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Orca Helix moves up and down so that it is easy to get on and off when high, easy on the body when low.<\/p>\n<p>Many things have changed in the last hundred years, but one thing that has hardly changed at all is the toilet. And<a href=\"https:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/bathroom-design\/the-history-of-the-bathroom-part-5-alexander-kira-and-designing-for-people-not-plumbing.html\"> as we have been saying on TreeHugger<\/a> for what feels like a hundred years, it\u2019s all wrong. Our bodies are designed to squat, yet instead, we sit on 14 inch high seats, which actually makes it hard to poop. As we get older, or fatter, people have trouble even getting on a 14 inch seat and buy \u201ccomfort height\u201d toilets, which make it even harder to poop. It is exactly the wrong thing to do, causing constipation, haemorrhoids and worse.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-could-be-the-biggest-advance-in-toilet-design-in-over-a-hundred-years2.jpg\" alt=\"Ivan pondering toilets\" class=\"\"\/><em class=\"\">Ivan pondering toilets \/ Lloyd Alter\/<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/deed.en\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/bathroom-design\/could-be-biggest-advance-toilet-design-over-hundred-years.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orca Helix moves up and down so that it is easy to get on and off when high, easy on the body when low. Many things have changed in the last hundred years, but one thing that has hardly changed at all is the toilet. And as we have been saying on TreeHugger for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}