It always baffled me as to why Americans use toilet paper and not water like most backs from Asians countries do.
After all they have more cleaner water than we Indians do. In fact, most Asian countries are water inefficient. There is scarcity of water in countries like India and Pakistan despite being surrounded by water.
It is technical matter, let’s not get into this right now.
This question has been made fun of many times and recently I have seen the changes in this trend where some videos on internet are trending where Americans claim that they feel more comfortable washing their holes with water now, than using the toilet paper compared to earlier.
But why did this happen?
Why the sudden change?
The reason behind this became apparent to me after I started reading about health blogs about food one must eat in order to be healthy.
I have a theory and according to that theory I strongly believe that people in India should not eat avocado simply because it is scarce here.
We should not eat anything which is not grown locally.
There is a trend among health enthusiasts that certain food is more beneficial than others, especially in India where we are constantly told that certain food which doesn’t grow in India has more nutritional value than the local vegetables which are primarily grown in India.
As if India grows all the crap in the world.
Stick to the food which grows in your region.
I say this because the food which grows in your region is based on the geography and climate of that region and the same geography and region also effects our own body.
People in South India consumes coconut and in tonnes and the northeners try to replicate it and they don’t get the same results.
First of all the results from anything you eat won’t be visible in occasional few days of eating. It takes times, sometimes in years to show the results.
Second, by eating what others are eating at distant land doesn’t make your body absorb the same nutrients in the same way.
Every human body is used to of eating in certain way right since their childhood and it won’t change its dietary patterns after a few eatings of different food.
In fact dietary patterns will take huge amounts of time before they even start to show results.
However, there are eating habits which affect our excretion as well.
The black shit, the yellow shit, the liquid shit or hard shit, we have all experienced it one time or the other.
It actually tells us the state of our stomach and what we are eating and how much we are exercising.
But the stickiness in our shits tells a different story. Most European countries, whom I personally believe shits hard shits like animals.
As I haven’t seen them shitting so I cannot claim that I can infer this to utmost scientific accuracy.
The idea about dry shit and soft shit arose in my mind when I saw some video on the youtube about an animal which produces a rectangular shit which is one of it’s kind.
It was like a block of grass stuck together with hard glue.
Even my dog, whom I take out everyday for a walk produces shit that doesn’t stick to her ass, then why it does with Indians.
It is because of one reason – gluten.
Indians take huge amounts of gluten in the form of rotis and rice but intake very less vegetables. Even the vegetables they eat are highly cooked which breaks down the fibres in them and makes it a mushy substance which is has already been destroyed in terms of nutrients.
Indians also smell a lot as has been noticed by several European, Canadian and American people and been made fun of that.
They smell our bad odours because they are fetishists. Indians however would never smell someone like that.
Indians smell because of the spices they eat which causes a lot of sweat. People who don’t eat spices won’t smell as bad as other people because they won’t producer sweat.
However, in most countries people don’t need to sweat because they are not as hot as India is.
We need sweat to calibrate the temperatures of our body.
For that we eat food which produces more sweat than it would naturally. That same food also causes stickiness in our shit.
I am not just saying this. I met a celebrity sometimes back who asked me to avoid the five whites in life – sugar, salt, rice, wheat and milk.
Barring milk, I avoided everything and started eating more veggies and it turns out that even my shit wasn’t that sticky and I didn’t have problems shitting anymore.
I have a history of being constipated for a long time and it is because of people like me that the business of Kayam choorna has been so successful.
Barely fried vegetables will give you enough fibres which are needed by our intestine. Most fruits and vegetables constitutes water, like nearly 80% and rest is just nutrients trapped in fibres.
After nutrients are absorbed, what remains are fibres and water and both go different ways to excrete from the body which gives our body a motion of life.
One way to go in and one way to go out, the action and reaction part. Something goes in and something goes out. In dead things when something goes in, nothing comes out. What a marvel our body is and how godly god is create something like our body.
So the main reason Europeans don’t use toilet paper is because they don’t eat as much gluten as Asians do. I am pretty sure Italians have the same problem because they also eat too much gluten, more than probably any other country of Europe.
Just eating raw food will help you more.
My parents can’t believe that anyone can eat food without rotis and rice. It is mandatory in India to eat rotis, parathas, pooris with sabzi. No one can ever dream in their worst night mare that oen can eat just sabzi with out any roti or rice in it. It won’t go down their necks to be sure.
This is a drink conversation which I had with a friend of mine over a phone call. So I decided to write it down here to propagate this idea which I personally believe has no place in the literary history of the mankind.