There are numerous factors that lead to the development of hemorrhoids and the most common are obesity, the natural process of aging, pregnancy, chronic diarrhea or constipation, the overuse of laxatives or spending too much time on the toilet. There are also cases of people who are genetically predisposed to develop thin and fragile veins that can lead to conditions like internal or external hemorrhoids or varicose veins. Click here to see the most efficient cure for hemorrhoids.

However, there are theories claiming that the main hemorrhoids causes are consequences of our modern life style. It may sound bizarre at first but it makes sense if you think about it: our bodies are not fully adapted to eat all the processed foods that we eat today. It’s only in the very recent history of human kind that we introduced in our diet things like: corn syrup, white flour, hydrogenated oils, taste enhancers or other artificially produced substances. Since the dawn of human history and only until a few thousand years ago, the human body was only used with diets mainly composed of meat, berries, fruit and nuts, or the so-called hunter/gatherer diet.

So, suddenly changing what we eat by taking in mainly processed food full of unnatural substances, our buddies find themselves not knowing how to cope with these new substances that we eat on a daily basis, so in response we develop a range of diseases in a much more frequent way than our ancestors. These diseases include obesity, different types of cancer, heart disorders and different types of hemorrhoids.

The squatting position

If for example, we compare USA with any other underdeveloped agrarian country we will notice a very big difference in the incidence of hemorrhoid cases within the local population. This is partly due to the fact that agrarian societies tend to eat less processed food, because instead of buying ready made meals, they mostly eat what they grow themselves. And furthermore, according to a study made by Dr. Berko Sikirov in 1987, it seams that there is also a connection between the number of hemorrhoid cases and the type of toilet used by a certain population.

His findings reveal that people who use squat toilets, like most of the populations from agrarian countries, are less likely to develop hemorrhoids and if they happen to do so, the healing time is much shorter than in the case of people who use sitting toilets, like the majority of developed countries, including the USA. This goes to prove that the very popular habit of reading the paper when using the toilet, thus lengthening the time spent on a sitting toilet, is an important cause of developing hemorrhoids.

Now that you know the main hemorrhoids causes, read about hemorrhoid treatment.