For All You Closet Pickers

[Dwilah]

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.

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

[Novall]

nice


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[Jabe Adaks]

This coming from the town chef... Ugh.

Jabe

[Dwilah]

This coming from the town chef... Ugh.

Jabe

I dropped chef, you goof. Though if you want to say, "This coming from the town doctor, ugh," that works.

http://www.deviantart.com/view/17108984/ YUUUM

[Keer]

While I can't claim common knowledge to that doctor's theory, I have heard of other "back to the basics" approaches to medical health.

I've read that hot showers are bad for the body when done frequently. The sense of it being that mammals, and especially humans, never had large exposure to hot water sources in their developmental history. Thus, the mammalian body has adapted to cold water exposure far better. Cold water slows gas expansion, helping gaseous blood toxins to dissipate at a safer rate.

On the even flippier side, drinking warm water is supposed to help digestion and intestinal health in general.

Also, the old saying "go soak your head" is said to stem from a temporary medical trick used to induce the initial stages of Mammalian Diving Reflex, a natural condtion that eases cardio-respiratory processes in all mammals when their faces are submerged in water.

As for the Booger Diet...if all that other stuff can be true, then why not that?

[X'an Shin]

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.

Maybe because it IS?

But seriously, the guy does have a point. I think the very first innoculation against smallpox or chickenpox that's documented was someone taking the scabs and putting them in people's noses. Same idea. You get a very very small filtered dose of the (now mostly dead) virus that your body can easily fight off.[/quote]

[Novall]

Well...now I know what to do when i want a snack!

[Dwilah]

I still think it's funny. XD

[Jaminos]

I think I need to check all my food now, I found hair from Dwi'lah's food before but nose gold? Hmm....

[Weyune]

I think I'll go with buying medicine if I have to. Ive seen footage of where chimpanzees do this in the wild but I can at least work to earn money to pay for medicines and vitamin suppliments.

[KirtViza]

eh, I do it w/e and honestly Ive rarely been sick.My mother and my sister had the flu for two weeks and I was the only person home to take care of them, and I got sick from them and it lasted 2 days so I am a proud booger eater!

[Jabe Adaks]

I dropped chef, you goof.

What a strange phenomenon.. Just about every female I know calls me a goof frequently. I guess I am a goof...

Jabe

[Jerrel]

Ok..........interesting.


If you want a stronger immune system just dont take antibiotics every time you get a sniffle. I rarely take any medicine for anything and I've never been sick for over 4 days.

[Rebecca]

Ok... I'm just gonna start picking my nose and selling it to the other people.
This could be a really good business investment.
Digging for gold, so to speak.