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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Young, Sera, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Craving Earth : Understanding Pica-the Urge to Eat Clay, Starch, Ice, and Chalk / Sera Young. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2011] ©2011 1 online resource (240 p.) : 20 halftones, 16 line drawings, 3 tables text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Part I. All About Pica -- 1. What on Earth? -- 2. A Biocultural Approach: A Holistic Way to Study Pica -- 3. Medicine You Can Walk On -- 4. Religious Geophagy: Sacredness You Can Swallow -- 5. Poisons and Pathogens -- Part II. But Why? -- 6 Dismissal and Damnation: A Historical Perspective on the Purported Causes of Pica -- 7. Pica in Response to Food Shortage -- 8. Pica as a Micronutrient Supplement -- 9. Pica to Protect and Detoxify -- 10. Putting the Pica Pieces Together -- Appendix A: Notable Moments in the History of Pica -- Appendix B: Prevalence of Pica Among Representative Populations of Pregnant Women -- Appendix C: Prevalence of Pica Among Representative Populations of Children -- Appendix D: Pica in Literature -- Appendix E: Association Between Pica and Iron Defi ciency and/or Anemia in Cross-Sectional Studies -- Appendix F: Association Between Pica with Zinc Defi ciency in Cross-Sectional Studies -- Appendix G: Predictions -- Notes -- Glossary -- Works Cited -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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, Sera L. Young creates a portrait of pica, or nonfood cravings, from humans' earliest ingestions to current trends and practices. In engaging detail, she describes the substances most frequently consumed and the many methods (including the Internet) used to obtain them. She reveals how pica is remarkably prevalent (it occurs in nearly every human culture and throughout the animal kingdom), identifies its most avid partakers (pregnant women and young children), and describes the potentially healthful and harmful effects. She evaluates the many hypotheses about the causes of pica, from the fantastical to the scientific, including hunger, nutritional deficiencies, and protective capacities. Never has a book examined pica so thoroughly or accessibly, merging absorbing history with intimate case studies to illuminate an enigmatic behavior deeply entwined with human biology and culture. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Pica (Pathology) Pica (Pathology). MEDICAL / Nutrition. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442472 print 9780231146098 https://doi.org/10.7312/youn14608 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231517898 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231517898/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Part I. All About Pica -- 1. What on Earth? -- 2. A Biocultural Approach: A Holistic Way to Study Pica -- 3. Medicine You Can Walk On -- 4. Religious Geophagy: Sacredness You Can Swallow -- 5. Poisons and Pathogens -- Part II. But Why? -- 6 Dismissal and Damnation: A Historical Perspective on the Purported Causes of Pica -- 7. Pica in Response to Food Shortage -- 8. Pica as a Micronutrient Supplement -- 9. Pica to Protect and Detoxify -- 10. Putting the Pica Pieces Together -- Appendix A: Notable Moments in the History of Pica -- Appendix B: Prevalence of Pica Among Representative Populations of Pregnant Women -- Appendix C: Prevalence of Pica Among Representative Populations of Children -- Appendix D: Pica in Literature -- Appendix E: Association Between Pica and Iron Defi ciency and/or Anemia in Cross-Sectional Studies -- Appendix F: Association Between Pica with Zinc Defi ciency in Cross-Sectional Studies -- Appendix G: Predictions -- Notes -- Glossary -- Works Cited -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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