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Joiner is describing the delectable taste of dirt -- specifically, clay from the region around her home in Montezuma, Ga. ... The habit of eating clay, mud or dirt is known as geophagy. Some experts lump it into the same category as pica, which is the abnormal urge to eat coins, paint, soap or other non-food items.
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abcnews.go.com/Health/Diet/story?id=1167623&page=1
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Geophagy (Eating Dirt) and Its Reasons ... Risks of Eating Dirt ... Eating dirt, then, rather than being abnormal, may be an evolutionary adaptation acquired over millennia of productive and not-so-productive interactions with bacteria—an adaptation that enhances fetal immunity and increases calcium,
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www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol9no8/03-0033.htm
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There is something addictive about eating dirt. After a while you just don't mind, probably because you've begun to realize that it is the greatest thing that can happen to you. We once held a competition to see who could come out of a single one-hour lesson the dirtiest;
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www.albany.edu/~av1975/dirt.html
www.albany.edu/~av1975/dirt.html
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Eating dirt, also known as geophagy, is a tradition that's been around for ages. ... Unfortunately, dirt-eating is not always the healthiest of pastimes. It can lead to constipation, anemia and liver and kidney damage. In fact recently the potential dangers of eating dirt made the news in Alabama.
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www.suite101.com/article.cfm/5671/89106
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Eating Dirt by Brian Doyle ... They are all three in our minuscule garden at the moment, my sons eating dirt as fast as they can get it off the planet and down their gullets. ... The boys are eating so much dirt so fast that much of it is missing their maws and sliding down their chicken chests. It is thick moist dirt,
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www.envirolink.org/enviroarts/literary_arts/BrianDoyle_...
www.envirolink.org/enviroarts/literary_arts/BrianDoyle_dirt.html
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Stop the Ride (a frugal living blog) has an entire catagory on eating and preparing foraged food!;; Another Woman's Treasure discusses Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma and the concept of "usufruct", and pointed out the fallenfruit.org project.
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Eating Earth - practice of dirt eating among some native peoples from Whole Earth provided by Find Articles at BNET ... Not all earth eating is great for you. It can calm hunger without satisfying nutritional needs. It can eventually line the intestines and prevent nutrient absorption. It can become an addiction and a form...
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Eating Earth - practice of dirt eating among some native peoples from Whole Earth provided by Find Articles at BNET ... Geophagy is widespread among pregnant women in much of rural and village Africa, where earth eating's palpable nutritional benefits are unquestioned. Termite mounds -- the masticated-earth homes of...
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Geophagy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Geophagy is the practice of eating earthy or soil-like substances such as clay, and chalk, in order to obtain essential nutrients such as sulfur and phosphorus from the soil. This practice is widespr...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geophagy
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