[Callandor]

Top doc backs picking your nose and eating it.

[COLOR=DarkOrange]"[/COLOR]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.[COLOR=DarkOrange]"[/COLOR]

Source: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_903083.html

I do it all the time. I'm gonna live a lonnngggg life. What about you???
No really, I do.

edit: if you don't trust the site supplied, just go to google.com and type in "picking your nose and eating it is good for you" and you will recieve a multitude of alternative pages for you to try and believe.

[EcPercy]

J/K LOL. Picking your nose is one thing, but eating it is another. I will not encourage my children to eat it.

[BWX]

That doctor is a complete moron.

[MIG-31]

i shudder at the thought......that is totally disgusting,but some will agree to this....i have seen quite a few in my rear view mirror.

i think this doc......needs to rethink his claims imo.

[Dexsal]

crap comeing out from nose is skin, you get new skin for your eyes each 24 hours

[mbeeston]

i do and i don't care.. goes down your throat either way

[Sandok]

LOL well I guess I'll start! (a joke if eva)

[BWX]

Originally Posted by mbeeston

i do and i don't care.. goes down your throat either way

Man that is some sick Sht! WTH? I didn't even do that as a kid! Ask my mom!

Yeah I'll pick all day if I feel like it but no way in Hell I'll eat ANYTHING that comes out of ANY part of my body- unless I get cut i will drink my own blood, but that's different. That isn't a WASTE product.

I bet that idiot doc probably thinks the same about other stuff that comes out of other places too- I think he needs his head checked, that is some sick stuff to be spreading around. Ewww, I'm gonna go puke.

[Nacht]

i've never done that, and never will. besides, this is just one guy saying that it might be good for you. there is no evidence to suggest this other than that one crazy doctor. IMO it will have no effect on you, so there is no reason to put that crap in your mouth.

[Vampyromaniac]

Originally Posted by BWX

unless I get cut i will drink my own blood, but that's different.

save some for me

[dj_stick]

so typical vamp

but it could only be an aussie to figure this one out

[Sargentwhitey]

ugh.. I knew someone that used to do that all the time.. I will never do it.. ever.. even if it is one of the healthiest things to do in the world

[Judas]

drinking your own bloody is a very very bad thing... far worse the eatin your snot

[MythicaL]

The doctor must've seen the episode of SouthPark where Cartman sticks food up his ass and craps out of his mouth

[Judas]

rotfl.... i recently saw that... most halarious thing ever....

[BWX]

Originally Posted by Judas

drinking your own bloody is a very very bad thing... far worse the eatin your snot

What?? Ask Vampy, see what he says.

[Vampyromaniac]

I don't know about drinking your own blood, but putting your mouth on an open wound is bad. It can cause an infection in the wound. Though, I don't know if self-infection is as likely as inter-person.

[The_Neon_Cowboy]

Originally Posted by sun_walka

"And eating the dry remains of what you pull out is a great way of strengthening the body's immune system.

so does swiming in raw sewage, but it's not desireable.. or advised...

Originally Posted by Vampyromaniac

I don't know about drinking your own blood, but putting your mouth on an open wound is bad. It can cause an infection in the wound. Though, I don't know if self-infection is as likely as inter-person.

yep cleaning your wound with your anus would be cleaner

no really ,

the mouth carries more germs and bacteria then the anus, why? becouse of food/utensianals, teeth, saliva etc play roles ? mostly it's becouse the mouth is the bigger opening, (for most people )

[BWX]

I've never infected myself by sucking my own blood, but then again I brush my teeth.

[swimtech]

I can't believe I'm even touching this thread with a ten foot pole attached to my forearm , but(t)...

I've never eaten my own boogers, but I did swim in flooded streets (dark brown water too!) after big rainstorms when I lived in Florida, south of Miami, as a 5-7 year old kid. I very seldom get sick even when all around me are ill with colds, etc. Maybe the swimming in raw sewage helped...

My 4 year old daughter eats 'em all the time - she actually doesn't seem to suffer from colds as much as the other kids or my wife either, hmmm...

[Nacht]

blood is good for you, it has alot of protein and some other nutrients...but too much of it will make you sick.

[Davisorle]

Have you noticed that somethign that you are all against ( including me) you have made one of the day's best threads? lol Nice one! I guess buggers atract even if they aren't tasty!

[Dark Lord]

drink blood from an open cut on my arm? why yes, yes i do.
eat my snot? hell no. never have and never will.

[Robert McClelland]

Do I smell bloody nosie comming