Picking Your Nose And Eating It

[looksgoodinred]

Gawd. I don't know how many hours parents spend telling their kids to not do this. Apparently, that may not be a good thing.

So if it's doesn't immediately make you gag at the thought.. go ahead. Pick your nose and eat it. It may be good for you. (Your other half may not find this new habit very attractive though.)

 

 

SASKATOON — If you don’t like gross things, this story is snot for you.

 

A University of Saskatchewan associate professor is trying to get more students interested in science by looking at the health benefits of picking your nose and eating it. Scott Napper, who teaches biochemistry, says nature pushes us to do different things because it is to our advantage to have certain behaviours, to consume different types of foods.

 

Mucous traps germs and stops them from getting into our body, but if we consume that mucous, it could help train our immune system by exposing it to the germs, Napper says. When children have the urge to pick their nose and eat it, parents shouldn’t get upset. Napper hopes to conduct a study where some type of molecule is inserted in people’s noses, then half the participants pick their nose and eat it and the other half don’t. “I think the challenge would be getting volunteers to participate in this experiment,” he says with a laugh. “Especially if you didn’t know which group you were going to fall into.”

 

Napper also says making science more humorous and fun keeps students interested and engaged. “I don’t try to convert them all to biochemistry. My goal is always if I can teach you one thing that you’re going to tell somebody else about outside the scope of this class, then I’ve prompted you to think a little bit, to question these things. And I think with this example, it probably succeeded in that.”

 

Napper has two young daughters and says the idea of letting them pick their noses, even if in the name of science, didn’t go over well with his wife. “Yeah, she’s of a different opinion,” he says. “She’s more towards training them to be little ladies.”

 

 

http://www.theprovince.com/life/Nose+picking+could+good+Saskatchewan+professor+plans+test/8293805/story.html

[Kilkito]

Bonus! I used to pretend to pick and eat my now 3 year olds, but he thought I was really doing it, and will often now try and put one of his in my mouth, so at least I'm getting some benefit, if not a taste sensation!

[ChutneyLove]

pugs > ear wax > toe jam

 

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