Was just wondering cause when i am driving down the motorway I see people eating them all the time. Yuck!
2006-07-21 14:22:53 · 18 answers · asked by auntiejill12 1 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
eww
2006-07-21 14:23:38 · answer #1 · answered by Becky 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought it was just waste left over from the lungs/respirartory system. Anything that is waste doesn't seem too good to me. But then again, when you are trapped out in the wild, they say eating your own waste will hold you over until you get real food and contains nutrients just as the food you ate did. Now, I don't know what happens when you haven't ate enough to make waste. Either way it seems unpleasing. I think the people you are talking about who are picking their nose probably have no clue about the nutritional value. They just like how it feels and taste.
2006-07-21 14:31:00 · answer #2 · answered by Shaddup shaddin' up! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if you consider what a booger is, the hairs in your nose secrete an oil that it uses to filter the incoming air. The booger is an accumulation of filtered contaminants from the air and oils from your nose.
If you're into eating dust and such, maybe have a look at the furnace filter in your house, there's a whole buffet on that thing.
2006-07-21 14:27:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
None I'm sure, after all they are just dirt and mucus (yum!) I have heard that some doctors think that if you allow your kids to eat their boogers, they won't get sick as often. Something about building up an immunity. Go figure! Stranger things have happened!
2006-07-21 14:26:50 · answer #4 · answered by rowdygirl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An Austrian doctor is proposing that children be encouraged to pick their nose and to eat their boogers. "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 ".....people who pick their nose and eat it get a natural boost to their immune system for free." Who knew that the dirty kid in your grade school class who picked his nose all the time and ate it would have a stronger immune system?
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/32024
2006-07-21 14:25:52 · answer #5 · answered by ~ ♥ Sun$hine ♥ ~ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont recognize why dont you eat one and discover out? haha im in basic terms joking! haha yet im not particular if it really is genuine with boogers yet ive been advised that human urine has nutritional value
2016-12-10 13:17:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if its nutritional value, but i have heard that eating "boogers" builds your immune system.
2006-07-21 14:26:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people never grow up. Its like a five year old still sucking a pacifier.
2006-07-21 14:25:05 · answer #8 · answered by aprayer4u2004 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Packed with protein... Cool huh... and let's face it, slip a couple into a sandwich, you'd never know!
2006-07-21 14:29:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nah doubt it but mother always said i should eat my greens
2006-07-21 14:26:34 · answer #10 · answered by simon n 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep... same as toe nails, finger nails and all other body parts. Recycling... that's what we call it these days.
2006-07-21 14:25:33 · answer #11 · answered by Saudi Geoff 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋