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Top Doc Back Picking Nose and Eating It
Annanova ^
| 3/26/04
Posted on 03/26/2004 7:34:29 AM PST by 11th Earl of Mar
| Top doc backs picking your nose and eating it |
(Annanova) 3/26/04- 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.
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To: Maceman
When I was a kid, there was this one unabashed booger-eater in my class whose public indulgence in the habit made him the brunt of all kinds of hostility from classmates. He never was able to overcome his social outcast statue as a "booger-eating spaz." The poor kid was so tormented and oppressed by his grossed-out peers that he never got over it, with the result that he grew up to be an ACLU lawyer, a university law professor and the author of several published leftist screeds on the oppression of minorities (no kidding).
Now we know where all the hard core leftists come from. Dan Rather must have been a bleeder.
To: cyborg
Good morning! Believe it or not I'm over here!
To: Mr. Bird
I pick, I do not eat.So, you're only half as healthy as you could be.
To: PreviouslyA-Lurker
Heh...the picking nose crowd and the drink urine for your health crowd should have a meeting.
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posted on
03/26/2004 8:52:02 AM PST
by
cyborg
(troll on a stick)
To: 11th Earl of Mar
Think Clinton's Surgeon General would have gotten around to advising this if only she hadn't been fired for talking so much about masturbation?
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posted on
03/26/2004 8:53:05 AM PST
by
weegee
(From the way the Spanish voted - it seems that the Europeans do know there is an Iraq-Al Qaida link.)
To: 11th Earl of Mar
I'm about to call ABUSE on you < /sarcasm >.
THAT post needed a barf alert!
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posted on
03/26/2004 8:54:06 AM PST
by
weegee
(From the way the Spanish voted - it seems that the Europeans do know there is an Iraq-Al Qaida link.)
To: cyborg
LOL! I may have to leave this thread very soon. It may be more than I can stomach. I just came here for the article.
There are some threads that you know you shouldnt even start reading. Ten minutes later, I finally get to the end and I want more.
Must do work......must do work.....
God I love this place.
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posted on
03/26/2004 8:55:42 AM PST
by
Vermont Lt
(I am not from Vermont. I lived there for four years and that was enough.)
To: 11th Earl of Mar
Better living through chemistry eating.
To: PreviouslyA-Lurker
It is disgusting, the nose thing. I had a customer come in who waxed poetic about urine therapy. He listened to too much Gary Null IMHO.
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posted on
03/26/2004 8:55:49 AM PST
by
cyborg
(troll on a stick)
To: Moonman62
That kid will eat anything.
111
posted on
03/26/2004 8:56:02 AM PST
by
Tribune7
(Vote Toomey April 27)
To: cyborg
*winces* Did he have bad breath? I have never heard of urine therapy (ick). That guy just needs plain therapy me thinks.
To: dighton
I'm not even going to look.
To: 11th Earl of Mar
This reminds me of a pink floyd song, something about eating your pudding.
To: PreviouslyA-Lurker
This type of health food store draws more nutters than a GNC-type establishment. I don't know about internal use BUT urine was a common thing to clean infected wounds in the bush during a lot of wars and such. No thanks! I'll take peroxide.
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posted on
03/26/2004 9:01:25 AM PST
by
cyborg
(troll on a stick)
To: PreviouslyA-Lurker
:O
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posted on
03/26/2004 9:01:46 AM PST
by
cyborg
(troll on a stick)
To: 11th Earl of Mar
PULL MY FINGER!
To: Musket
Is that good for your immune system also?
To: Maceman
How sad.
To: PreviouslyA-Lurker
Is that good for your immune system also? Beats me. I've heard that it is but I'm not about to try it. Yuck.
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03/26/2004 9:13:49 AM PST
by
Musket
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