Picking your nose and eating it is good for your health - it's true

[critikaldesignz]

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_28-3-2004_pg9_5

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Doc backs nose picking

Picking your nose and eating it is one of the best ways to stay healthy, according to a top Austrian doctor. Innsbruck-based lung specialist Prof Dr Friedrich Bischinger said people who pick their noses with their fingers were healthy, happier and probably better in tune with their bodies.

He says society should adopt a new approach to nose picking and encourage children to take it up.

Dr Bischinger said: “With the finger you can get to places you just can’t reach with a handkerchief, keeping your nose far cleaner. “And eating the dry remains of what you pull out is a great way of strengthening the body’s immune system. “Medically it makes great sense and is a perfectly natural thing to do. In terms of the immune system the nose is a filter in which a great deal of bacteria are collected, and when this mixture arrives in the intestines it works just like a medicine. “Modern medicine is constantly trying to do the same thing through far more complicated methods, people who pick their nose and eat it get a natural boost to their immune system for free.” —Ananova

 

[tupacmansion]

naaaasty, id rather have a shit immune system than do this.

 

[Salar]

Drinking your urine makes you superman. Doesnt' mean i'll do it just because someone says it's true.

 

[critikaldesignz]

J-Lo

 

[KAMIKAZI]

Is this a joke?

 

[GhostOfRazgriz]

left out the part where he says " and i base these claims on absoloutely nothing." technically he is right though.ive seen people eat boogers and its quite nasty but hes probably right.

basically boogers are formed when mucus(snot) leaks into the open parts of the nostrils and mixes with dust and bacteria and other particles filtered out of the air by your nose.

 

[Dante]

you can also "boost your immune system" by licking handrails, but then again, i'd rather not. he said it himself that the nose mucus is a filter, and eating what is filtered negates the very filtration that is meant to help prevent infection. this man, if he's a genuine doctor, needs to bone up on his epidemeology and physiology.

 

[GhostOfRazgriz]

you can also "boost your immune system" by licking handrails, but then again, i'd rather not. he said it himself that the nose mucus is a filter, and eating what is filtered negates the very filtration that is meant to help prevent infection. this man, if he's a genuine doctor, needs to bone up on his epidemeology and physiology.

Different ways of looking at things i guess.

 

[Cheesyphily16]

Don't believe everything you read

 

[Helena]

^exactly. urgh it's disgusting!

 

[S O F I]

My mom always told me to never believe a man named Bischinger so, whatever!

 

[KAMIKAZI]

My mom always told me to never believe a man named Bischinger so, whatever!

My mom told me if you pick your nose your finger could get stuck there and you would have to get it cut off with the severed finger hanging out of your nose for the rest of your life.

 

[_carmi]

one word: EWWWWWW

 

[S O F I]

My mom told me if you pick your nose your finger could get stuck there and you would have to get it cut off with the severed finger hanging out of your nose for the rest of your life.

Well, your mother is an idiot.

 

[Hymnz]

i always says, i says, im a healthy litte boy i says..
could you imagine someone saving up the shit and making like a ball and then eating it!!!! disgusting

 

[Synful*Luv]

Ewwww. . .

 

[Prize Gotti]

Is this a joke?

Nah its true, they teach it in biology. The mucus (snot/boogie/greenie) in the nose is there to stop bad bacteria and kill it to prevent and attempt to cure colds. Eating it will kill the bad bacteria in your body.

Its just frowned upon cos it looks horrible.