{"id":5370,"date":"2004-03-30T06:13:12","date_gmt":"2004-03-30T13:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/03\/30\/picky-picky-picky.html"},"modified":"2004-03-30T06:13:12","modified_gmt":"2004-03-30T13:13:12","slug":"picky_picky_pic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/30\/picky_picky_pic.html","title":{"rendered":"Picky, picky, picky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think we&#8217;re still going to <a title=\"Ananova - Top doc backs picking your nose and eating it\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_903083.html?menu=\">discourage Katherine from doing it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">Dr Bischinger said: &#8220;With the finger you can get to places you just can&#8217;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&#8217;s immune system.<br \/>\n&#8220;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.<br \/>\n&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instapundit.com\/archives\/014800.php\">InstaPundit<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think we&#8217;re still going to discourage Katherine from doing it. Dr Bischinger said: &#8220;With the finger you can get to places you just can&#8217;t reach with a handkerchief, keeping&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27988,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/24\/fevers-and-autism.html","url_meta":{"origin":5370,"position":0},"title":"Fevers and autism","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 24-May-12 9:50am","format":false,"excerpt":"As +Steven Sudit noted, vaccines are involved in autism ... in that if you get a flu vaccine, you are less likely to catch a disease that causes fevers.Reshared post from +TS-Si News ServiceFever Doubles Pregnancy Risk for Autism or Developmental Delay Sacramento, CA, USA. 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