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Some of us do, but that's a dietary issue associated with high animal product consumption and basically no fiber consumption.

Like everyone else anywhere from 3x/day to once every 3 days is normal and healthy.

Nope. I shit every day, in the morning, on a schedule.

Your teacher was full of shit. Sure the Standard American Diet (SAD) is terrible and leaves fiber much to be desired, but not every American sticks to the SAD. I'm sure other countries have people that have shit diets and get constipated too, not just the US.

Generalizations don't help anyone.

I’m guessing this notion came about from the Baptist and evangelical folks, who indeed try to reduce the frequency of bodily functions, as they see those as sin. As a result, Lutherans and the like indeed only do number twos every couple of weeks. But the rest of Americans (the silent minority), who live on a diet of fiber free fast food, sodas and watery beer, open the diarrhea valve at least twice a day. Only in America!

Here in hot Australia, there are so many toilets to help with the diarrhea every summer...

I may not be your average American because I eat lots of veggies and beans and stuff but I'm once or twice a day, and they are solid sinkers.

She's an idiot.

Well, there was one lemmy post...

E: 3y ago and deleted, but apparently lemmygrad (despite my hatred for them) retained a copy thankfully. https://lemmygrad.ml/post/793635

No

And holy shit! to my astonishment your teacher just said the dumbest thing i have heard this year, and i have suffered through Donald Trump speeches….

Me, as an American:

When I was a kid, I’d poop once or twice a week, but I had a weird diet (vegetarian from very early childhood in a meat-eating family, so I drank a lot of milk, because my parents worried about protein).

Nowadays, I probably poop 1-3 times a day, depending on how much I eat. I’m vegan now, and I get more than enough fiber without any of the, uh, fixative properties of dairy, so that probably has a lot to do with it.

All this (wonderful) shit-talking and no-one has mentioned painkillers. Earlier this year I spent a couple of weeks in hospital along with a lot of other oldies with fall injuries. We were all taking oxycodone and paracetamol for the pain, and the nurses were obsessed with our bowel movements. We were given laxatives twice a day to hurry things along, and threatened with an enema if we went too long without pooing. After the laxatives worked their magic on me I started refusing to take them, because it took me so long to get across the ward to the toilet I was scared I'd shit myself halfway.

So yes, painkillers are costive.

And then there are the americans with IBS-d. They shit 5 to 10 times a day.

I'm an American who poops once a week. I'll go ahead and speak for all Americans here that this is undoubtedly true.

No.

once every 3 days to 3 times a day is considered normal. when i was on my first weight loss journey, i was eating properly within calories and exercising every day.. i would go every second day or third day and it wasnt much. the more processed, bready and sugary foods will have you on the bog daily. cut out the bread, and your screen time will drop!

I live in North America. It's about daily for me. Doctor doesn't care.

American here. I poop every day, some times 2x a day.

The climate is colder in North America

Colder than where?

On the off chance that this is a real question:

I am an American, and I poop regularly, every day.

I will admit that I do not adhere to the standard American diet, but I know that I am not alone in my poop habits.

I genuinely don't understand the logic of "America is a colder climate", because that is ostensibly incorrect.

Can confirm.

Source: am American, poop daily, saw a doctor once

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...

American here. I don't shit. My digestive system is perfect and produces no waste.

As an American I am full of shit, yes.

I live in northern Scandinavia and I poop probably 2–3 times a day, at set times. When I wake up, then some time usually shortly after lunch. Then maybe a bonus one after supper as well. But definitely 2 times a day. I had a cousin in law who lived in Florida, said she poops once a week or so. I couldn't believe it when she said that.