The parrots of Southeastern Peru crave an earthy delicacy: dirt. At the Colorado clay lick, a cliff face rising above the Tambopata River in the western Amazon Basin, parrots — often hundreds at a ...
The UK's Food Standards Authority and Health Security Agency both advise against eating clay, soil or earth. Links to their guidance ...
We could never know the variety of lifestyles that humans led, as their preferences ranged from reliable to bizarre. This included a medical condition wherein people felt the craving to indulge in ...
Most people sweep dirt into the trash, but a grassroots social media trend suggests sprinkling it on your lunch as a healthy treat. Health experts, however, say the risks of injury and disease far ...
Dr. Sera Young is a faculty member in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University and Reproductive Infectious Disease Fellow at UCSF. Her book is Craving Earth: Understanding Pica-- the ...
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Here's the dirt: humans have been eating soil for two million years. It was never as weird as it sounds.