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Top doc backs picking your nose and eating it

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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.


Eeewww!

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Drinking of one's own urine has frequently been advocated as a nostrum for all ills.

It is even mentioned in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.

I am reminded of that wonderful song by T Rex which was used in the film "Billy Elliot":

"I love to boogie" icon_biggrin.gif:D-->

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Originally posted by dmiller:

Just shows to go ya what the Indians know! icon_biggrin.gif:D--> icon_biggrin.gif:D--> icon_biggrin.gif:D--> icon_biggrin.gif:D--> icon_biggrin.gif:D-->

Woops! icon_eek.gificon_eek.gificon_eek.gif --- Was that philosopher an American Indian, or from India itself?? icon_confused.gif:confused:--> icon_confused.gif:confused:-->

Would HATE to be "politically incorrect" here! anim-smile.gifanim-smile.gifanim-smile.gif


dmiller, I was obviously talking about a person from India, or at least I think it was obvious. What we used to call Indians here are now called Native Americans.

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dmiller, I was obviously talking about a person from India, or at least I think it was obvious. What we used to call Indians here are now called Native Americans.

CKnapp -- yea, I know. icon_smile.gif:)--> I was being facetious, since Native Americans have "seekers", and not philosophers.

Example -- instead of "philosophizing" about where the sun came from, the Native American Seeker stayed up all night, and it suddenly dawned on him!

icon_biggrin.gif:D--> icon_rolleyes.gif:rolleyes:--> icon_biggrin.gif:D--> icon_rolleyes.gif:rolleyes:--> icon_biggrin.gif:D-->

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DMiller,

Blowing kisses at the tailgater behind you gets pretty funny results, too. Especially if they are of the same gender.

But I 'spose that could backfire...MCR


Blow kisses??? icon_eek.gificon_eek.gificon_eek.gif

That would get me in even more trouble up here, reguardless of the gender of the tailgater!!

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well all I wanna know is if it's still true that you can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose.

Bow--- Hmmmm. Not sure about this one, but as a banjo picker, I can categorically affirm that -- You can pick your friends, and you can pick your banjo -- BUT -- You cannot pick your friend's banjo!! anim-smile.gifanim-smile.gificon_biggrin.gif:D--> anim-smile.gifanim-smile.gif

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