This is HUGH!!! Five-Second Rule Expanded

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

I was watching Faux News (to get my blood pressure pumped up) and they announced that the five-second rule is increased to thirty seconds.

Probably done so aging boomers don't hurt themselves diving for dropped food.

This is wonderful news, if true. I'll listen for confirmation on Air America Radio.

[billyskank]

1. What's the five second rule?

[philosophie_en_rose]

2. If you pick up dropped food in five seconds, it's apparently still good.

Apparently the dirt or germs don't attach for five seconds . . . thirty if you're a republican.

:puke:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

3. Dirt never hurt anyone....

And the germs are good to give your immune system a workout!
:hide:

[Arkansas Granny]

8. To a certain extent, I believe that's true. Science seems to show

that keeping kids too clean and overuse of antibacterial products may be a cause in the increase in asthma and allergies in children.

Scientists suspect that eradicating organisms can weaken some parts of a child's immune system and cause an imbalance that triggers illnesses, such as asthma, allergies and some severe types of diabetes.

http://www.exn.ca/Stories/2000/07/20/54.asp

...The hypothesis is basically that if there's too much hygiene, too much cleanliness, mainly in the case of infants and young children, that their immune system does not get exercised. You know, you try to exercise your muscles and make them stronger and get your bones to grow. Well, no one is thinking about the immune system, but it needs to be practiced, too, and generally, in its young stages, it needs to encounter certain microbes that help it to turn itself on in a correct fashion.


http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/survival/enemy/discuss_04.html

[philosophie_en_rose]

9. Context counts.

It depends on what the food lands upon.

[Reverend_Smitty]

12. it sure does...

potato chip that lands on my carpet, I will exercise the 5 second rule...cheese ravioli that lands on a pile of dog doo...I'll just let that one go

[petronius]

10. Germs are just extra protein - and dirt is roughage... (nt)

[hellbound-liberal]

4. Sorry but the five-second rule was disproven by the Mythbusters, Adam and Jamie

They found that most of the germs that collect on dropped food do so immediately. Can't find the link, I'll keep looking.

[ashling]

5. However, The mythbusters' results are rarely, if ever,

replicated under controlled conditions by other scientists and, though they were interviewed by Terri Gross on NPR, there work has yet to appear in any scientific journals. In fact, they are only a myth. They are not scientists, they only play ones on TV :)

[hellbound-liberal]

6. I agree that they are more entertainment than science but

the five second rule was also disproven by a high school girl for a science project.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2003/09/16/five_second030916.html

By the way, does this mean that you can drop a penny off the Empire State Building and put it through someone's skull? :evilgrin:

[dembotoz]

7. if the ingredients come from china...

5 seconds, 30 seconds, 2 or 3 days-no difference--just as lethal.

[BarenakedLady]

11. Any dropped food around here

Doesn't last even 5 seconds.

That's what dogs live for.