We have a theory on the Five Second Rule and Glutathione relationship. What do you think about the five second rule?
A recent news cast reviewed a very basic study on the five second rule. You know, when you dropped a cookie on the floor, so long as mom was not looking, you yelled out, “five second rule,” and retrieved your prize cookie from the floor.
The latest study by a group of students found the 60 second rule more applicable. They used an apple slice (for wet foods) and a piece of hard candy (dry food). This was only one of numerous high school and college studies done on the rule.
The outcomes were varied. All the studies we reviewed reported different results from the amount of bacteria transfered to the times it took to transfer.
The Five Second Flaw
The flaw in the study, and all the related studies for that matter, is the lack of real world experience verses laboratory testing.
How long does a particular bacteria live? How far from the bathroom is the floor where the food was dropped? How often is it cleaned? Where have the shoes that are walking on the floor been? And what kind of bacteria are there on the particular floor?
Also, was it a straight drop or a drop and slide. Was there a roll involved or a wobble? This can make a serious difference considering if it is a chocolate chip cookie that only rates a 3 of 10 on your favorite cookie index. On the other hand, if it is the last mint cookie in the box, there could be serious implications on your emotional well being. What if after the anticipation, you have to be denied this one pleasure because of what may or may not be an urban legend.
The answer, it only takes a very few bacteria to make you sick.
Any time any food comes in contact with any bacteria there can be contamination. Bacteria are everywhere. When the wrong ones get in the wrong place, people get sick.
This is why there is so much work involved in making operating rooms at hospitals sterile. All this because of this little unseen life form.
Think about it, the one thing that has killed more of human kind than any thing else is invisible to the naked eye.
So if you want to avoid the risk of getting sick, throw the five second rule in the trash can with the cookie (unless it is your favorite cookie, mom is not looking, you know the floor is cleaned regularly and you have taken the steps found on UlteriorHealth.com to boost your glutathione levels). Since the rules inception, there have been no reported pandemics of floor born diseases spreading. This can only mean one thing. The odds are in favor of you being patient zero. Avoid the risk. Trash the cookie and hire a psychiatrist to help you cope with the loss.
Oh yes, what about The Five Second Rule and Glutathione theory. The younger we are the more glutathione we have. This is the reason for our continued existence even though we have lived by the five second rule, six second rule, seven second rule, 10 second rule and for a few of us, the 60 second rule (for when the cookie was playing hide and seek). So, if this is true, then boosting our glutathione could help us from wasting cookies and prevent additional psychiatric health care expenses.
Good health to you.