Craving Earth: Understanding Pica--The Urge to Eat Clay, Starch, Ice, and Chalk (Hardcover)

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 Deficiency and/or Anemia in Cross-Sectional Studies
Appendix F: Association Between Pica with Zinc Deficiency in Cross-Sectional Studies
Appendix G: Predictions
Notes
Glossary
Works Cited
Acknowledgments
Index