Political Crossfire Forums

[George W Bush]

If immunizations are based on exposing your body to small amounts of foreign elements in order to prevent disease,

people who pick their nose to eat their boogies are, in some way, exposing their body to foreign elements.

Would their body then create the neccessary cells to fight disease?

[Korimyr the Rat]

What foreign elements? The source material is coming from their own nose.

Any foreign material in the mucus is something the body's already been exposed to.

[Pzatchok]

Actually this study was finish a few months ago in britain.


guess what? they say eating them makes your immune system stronger.

For me I'll just take a vitamin c supliment and leave the boogies to the little tykes who don't know better.

[George W Bush]

I thought so.
Except Korimyr the Rat makes a good point.
if the stuff in your nose is already there, do you really need to eat it?
Isnt the exposure taking place.

But, I think this is where I understand the nose to contain hair for the capturing of these particles - which remain dormant unless they are scooped or blown out.
The hair serves to prevent the invasion of these particles.

ide be interested in that study on eating boogers and health.

[Prole]

I'd expect that given the high salt content of "boogers" (how often do you get to use that word in actual debate? :-D ), you'd probably just get dehydrated. Moreover, you will ingest enough mucous through just swallowing the "gunk" (another great word!) in your mouth to get exposed to whatever strains of bacteria you may have in your own body.

Although if you eat your boogers, you probably won't have any friends. So chances are you're less likely to get exposed to disease. Hmmm...