Picking your nose and eating buggers is healthy?

Published on February 20, 2005 By Kobrano In Home & Family

I remember Draginol posting a month ago about how his son eats his own buggers. At the time, I remembered several articles saying this was actually supposed to be beneficial, and is natures way of strengthening a childs immune system. Well I found the article, but google yields many more on the subject.

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

Comments

Danny Bassette

on Feb 20, 2005

Imagine that, countless kids have had the right idea for years

dharmagrl

on Feb 20, 2005

Ewwwww! Gag!!!!!

foreverserenity

on Mar 03, 2005

Now I know why mine did it - yuck!

Gideon MacLeish

on Mar 03, 2005

:::making note::: research market for "Dr. Gid's booger pills"

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