http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_903083.html Top doc backs picking your nose and eating it 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." He pointed out that children happily pick their noses, yet by the time they have become adults they have stopped under pressure from a society that has branded it disgusting and anti social. He said: "I would recommend a new approach where children are encouraged to pick their nose. It is a completely natural response and medically a good idea as well." And he pointed out that if anyone was really worried about what their neighbour was thinking, they could still enjoy picking their nose in private if they still wanted to get the benefits it offered.
It does make some sense.You must take in bits of molds, viruses and bugs to become immune to them. Also there is a very strong desire for young kids to pick their nose and eat it. Some reason its only looks gross but taste find to each individual. It may be a natural reaction of the human body to acclimatize its self to the world. Like a baby elephant who eats its mothers poo. If they didn't they would never get the proper bugs to break down their food and some reason it taste good to them. I am sure picking someone else nose or for an elephant, a strangers poo would taste just awful. For some reason these few things tend to taste good to that young individual but think of all the other bodily fluids and excretion that they both want nothing to do with as they smell and taste bad and are bad for you. If it taste good, eat it. Basic law of the jungle. Picking your nose 3 times a day; keeps the doctor away.
I'm just glad Dr Bischinger isn't a proctologist. :eek2: The scary part is I had just pulled a good booger from my nose not 2 seconds before clicking on this thread. I know, TMI.
