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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| 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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Table of Contents:
- 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