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Geophagia: History, Epidemiology, and Etiology

Geophagia: History, Epidemiology, and Etiology

Paperback

Medical Reference

ISBN10: 1032088060
ISBN13: 9781032088068
Publisher: Crc Pr Inc
Published: Jun 30 2021
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

Ingestion of food is a physiological process among heterotrophic organisms to obtain nutrients for survival. The consumption of soil, clay and chalk by humans is labeled as geophagia. Ancient resources and modern references deliver valuable information concerning geophagia and pica in humans. This book takes a consistent, interdisciplinary approach for reviewing this aberrant behavior, crafting its etiology, charting its health effects and identifying the universal traits among the affected population. It puts forward a brief conceptual framework to achieve universality in its definition, history, epidemiology and multiple hypotheses thus help in adopting measures to control this habit.


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