The Booger Is Your Friend?
 

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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What? Sorry, I was too busy picking my nose to read this. :D

See, I knew there was a good reason to why I hardly ever got sick as a kid :lol:

Aww, man. I was hoping this thread would be about the latest Revenge of the Nerds news. Curses.

Ew. That is all.

I'll happily pick my nose, but I don't think I'd eat the burried treasue inside.

I have such big sinus problems, I could probably have a meal of boogers... :lol:

I have sinus problems every year, and it angers me to no end.

Ok, ew. That is all I can say...ew.

... I knew... I just knew I shouldn't have been eating when I came into this thread...

Yuck.

Finger lickin' good.

Heh... I saw this in another forum not but a few hours ago.
I never ever ever ate my boogers, even as a kid. Boogers have always disgusted me. Picking them is one thing, I'll admit I do that in PRIVATE... but eating them, I simply will not ever do. I'll probably barf before it touches my tongue.

Hmmm..interesting thread. I'll come out and say I've been a picker for a looooong time..I won't go into any other detail about it. I try not to do it in public because I like people to think I'm a normal person. Ha. :D

Come on. Everyone picks their nose. It's human nature!

i wanna know how he came up with the idea to find out if your more healthy if you pick your nose, i mean was he just sitting at his desk bored as hell, picking his nose?

:lol: That's actually an interesting question!

That is very odd cause i found out that the bugers in your nose are actually germs collected by the nose hair.(Also other harmfull or unwatned things by your body try to get in threw your nose, and your nose hairs stop that and turn them to bugers.) That is what i found out from a teacher and a health book.

I pick my nose in school a lot.

Do you flick 'em at people?

No. But wait till my girlfriend sees this article!