Top Doc Back Picking Nose and Eating It

Annanova ^ | 3/26/04

[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.

[mountaineer]

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

My stomach churned mightily when I read this line. Auggghhh.

[DumpsterDiver]

Boogers: A Celebration

[xsmommy]

honest to God, there is something seriously wrong with you....and with me...for thinking you are so dang funny.... : )

[Consort]

Giant boogers are sometimes mistaken for ectoplasm.

[smith288]

I pick, I do not eat. This makes me socially ungraceful, yet only moderately disgusting.

Damn...you owe me a keyboard!

[FlJoePa]

Everybody's doing it..
Doing it..
Doing it..

Picking their nose and eating it..
Eating it..

You may think it's funny but it's snot.

[Skooz]

"With the finger you can get to places you just can't reach with a handkerchief, keeping your nose far cleaner."

A finalist in my new tagline competition.

[Consort]

Giant boogers are sometimes mistaken for ectoplasm.

[Consort]

Oops, double post.

[martin_fierro]

How, how, HOW did I just KNOW you'd end up here.

<|:)~

[bmwcyle]

New meaning to jelly donut?

[11th Earl of Mar]

Reminds me of the 'scary' story of a boy in a haunted house who hears, "I got you where I want you and now I'm gonna eat you." Only to find out the voice was his friend hidden in a closet with a booger on his finger.

[the OlLine Rebel]

OMG!

OK, picking is bad enough - but EATING it?

Wow, I never knew my erstwhile childhood friend Stacy was onto something........

[DWPittelli]

"With the finger you can get to places you just can't reach with a handkerchief, keeping your nose far cleaner."

The other option is to twist a tissue into a finger shape, and twist it in ones nose while blowing through nose and pinching other nostril shut. This cleans nose more throughly than a finger, and one doesn't have to then clean finger in sink (or with mouth!). Of course, it also should be done in private, or at least turned away from people you would rather not disgust. And unless they sell tasty, edible Kleenex, booger-eaters will be SOL.

[jigsaw]

THAT is a funny site! Thanks (with boogies on it!)

[11th Earl of Mar]

But how do you eat the booger without getting Kleenex in your mouth?

[IYAS9YAS]

Twenty bucks says the Smells kid picks his nose.

[Spyder]

Dang, I saw the title and was convinced someone had a photo of Howard Dean mining for boogers or sucking his finger.

[Musket]

This is one of the most disgusting threads ever. I'd rather go out in the yard and eat a spoonful of dirt.

[amadeus]

...because as the saying goes:

If a booger is eaten in solitude, is the booger truly eaten?