Craving Earth : : Understanding Pica-the Urge to Eat Clay, Starch, Ice, and Chalk / / Sera Young.
Humans have eaten earth, on purpose, for more than 2,300 years. They also crave starch, ice, chalk, and other unorthodox items of food. Some even claim they are addicted and "go crazy" without these items, but why?Sifting through extensive historical, ethnographic, and biomedical findings,...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 20 halftones, 16 line drawings, 3 tables |
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