Picking your nose and eating it might be good for your health, a University of Saskatchewan professor says. And to test his theory, he's enlisting his students.
The informal study was conceived by biochemist Dr. Scott Napper. He plans to split his class into two groups, one of which will be picked to be the experimental group. Their homework assignment will be to dig in, so to speak, to their nasal mucous.
The picking and eating of boogers satisfies a perfectly natural bodily urge to consume different types of foods, his thinking goes -- sort of like when you crave carbs or chocolate.
"So maybe when you have an urge like this to pick your nose and eat it, you should just go with nature," he told medicaldaily.com.
And eating the stuff that comes out of your nose might help boost the immune system by introducing small amounts of germs back into the body, Napper hypothesizes.
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