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'5 second rule' disproven


If you're a parent then you're familiar with the 5-second rule.

When your child's pacifier falls out of his mouth and tumbles onto the sidewalk, you can safely stick it back in his mouth--as long as it hasn't spent more than 5 seconds among the filth on the ground.

This same rule applies to any food that falls onto the ground, your kitchen floor, the playground grass.

It has long been assumed that if you pick up a fallen object quickly then it's unlikely to become contaminated by dangerous germs. And for parents who are always juggling a million things as they push their babies along in strollers this is a wonderful thing.

But now a scientist quoted in the New York Times has debunked the 5-second rule (darn him!).

"The 5-second rule probably should become the zero-second rule," Dr. Roy M. Gulick, chief of the division of infectious diseases at Weill Cornell Medical College, told the Times. "Eating dropped food poses a risk for ingestion of bacteria and subsequent gastrointestinal disease, and the time the food sits on the floor does not change the risk."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfmoms/detail?entry_id=84112#ixzz1FU3r20WH

rotflmffaorofllmaolol...etc...

that actually required a scientific study :awesome:

i always thought it was just a joke. seriously, if my food or kids pacifier hits the ground, it is no longer clean. who knows what is on the ground.
 
No one believes in the 5 second rule. Everyone I know, including myself, who uses it, jokingly blurts out "five second rule!" before sticking the pizza wedge in his mouth. Its pretty much always been tongue in cheek...
 
Yurt said:
'5 second rule' disproven


If you're a parent then you're familiar with the 5-second rule.

When your child's pacifier falls out of his mouth and tumbles onto the sidewalk, you can safely stick it back in his mouth--as long as it hasn't spent more than 5 seconds among the filth on the ground.

This same rule applies to any food that falls onto the ground, your kitchen floor, the playground grass.

It has long been assumed that if you pick up a fallen object quickly then it's unlikely to become contaminated by dangerous germs. And for parents who are always juggling a million things as they push their babies along in strollers this is a wonderful thing.

But now a scientist quoted in the New York Times has debunked the 5-second rule (darn him!).

"The 5-second rule probably should become the zero-second rule," Dr. Roy M. Gulick, chief of the division of infectious diseases at Weill Cornell Medical College, told the Times. "Eating dropped food poses a risk for ingestion of bacteria and subsequent gastrointestinal disease, and the time the food sits on the floor does not change the risk."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfmoms/detail?entry_id=84112#ixzz1FU3r20WH

rotflmffaorofllmaolol...etc...

that actually required a scientific study :awesome:

i always thought it was just a joke. seriously, if my food or kids pacifier hits the ground, it is no longer clean. who knows what is on the ground.
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Ahhhhh...but the "5 second rule" only works when used in conjunction with an immediate vigorous wiping of the dropped object on one's pantsleg.

Failure to retrieve the object within 5 seconds or to wipe said object on your pantleg immediately thereafter will result in your child getting sick.
 
ZappasGuitar said:
Ahhhhh...but the "5 second rule" only works when used in conjunction with an immediate vigorous wiping of the dropped object on one's pantsleg.

Failure to retrieve the object within 5 seconds or to wipe said object on your pantleg immediately thereafter will result in your child getting sick.
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lol
 
Threedee said:
No one believes in the 5 second rule. Everyone I know, including myself, who uses it, jokingly blurts out "five second rule!" before sticking the pizza wedge in his mouth. Its pretty much always been tongue in cheek...
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that is exactly how i treated the rule...i've even heard of the ancient and mysterious '3 second rule'
 
Yurt said:
'5 second rule' disproven


If you're a parent then you're familiar with the 5-second rule.

When your child's pacifier falls out of his mouth and tumbles onto the sidewalk, you can safely stick it back in his mouth--as long as it hasn't spent more than 5 seconds among the filth on the ground.

This same rule applies to any food that falls onto the ground, your kitchen floor, the playground grass.

It has long been assumed that if you pick up a fallen object quickly then it's unlikely to become contaminated by dangerous germs. And for parents who are always juggling a million things as they push their babies along in strollers this is a wonderful thing.

But now a scientist quoted in the New York Times has debunked the 5-second rule (darn him!).

"The 5-second rule probably should become the zero-second rule," Dr. Roy M. Gulick, chief of the division of infectious diseases at Weill Cornell Medical College, told the Times. "Eating dropped food poses a risk for ingestion of bacteria and subsequent gastrointestinal disease, and the time the food sits on the floor does not change the risk."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfmoms/detail?entry_id=84112#ixzz1FU3r20WH

rotflmffaorofllmaolol...etc...

that actually required a scientific study :awesome:

i always thought it was just a joke. seriously, if my food or kids pacifier hits the ground, it is no longer clean. who knows what is on the ground.
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Fuck that, that's a waste of perfectly good food. It's not germs ever killed anyone.
 
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