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"I
didn’t find out why it was so important until much later. When I finally
started marketing the product, I scoured the Internet and the libraries
for all the research that had ever been done on the benefits of
squatting. Each day brought a new revelation of the harm caused by the
modern commode. Squatting seemed to be the “Rosetta Stone” that solved
many mysteries, which for decades had baffled the medical profession.
Doctors had been groping in the dark for the cause of all the colon,
bladder and prostate disorders which – for some “strange” reason – were
absent in the developing world. "
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http://www.naturesplatform.com/about_us.html
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"According
to its holder, U.S. patent number 6,256,800 is going to revolutionize
Western civilization. Made of "powder coated" tubular steel, it sells
for $85 plus $13 shipping and handling over the Internet.
The inventor is Jonathan Isbit, a member of Yale's Class of 1972 who
left school one semester short of graduation. The product is "Nature's
Platform," essentially a table elevated at a 5 degree angle that allows
the inclined to squat 2 inches above the seat of a conventional toilet.
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