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.
News Source: Ananova