geophagia การใช้

• It remains unknown which function is the more important in avian geophagia.
• However, geophagia has become less prevalent as rural Americans assimilate into urban culture.
• In the southern United States in the 1800s, geophagia was a common practice among the slave population.
• Geophagia is nearly universal around the world in tribal and traditional rural societies ( although apparently it has not been documented in Japan and Korea ).
• Larger organisms may also consume soil ( geophagia ) or use mineral resources, such as salt licks, to obtain limited minerals unavailable through other dietary sources.
• Geophagia was common among slaves who were nicknamed " clay-eaters " because they had been known to consume clay, as well as spices, ash, chalk, grass, plaster, paint, and starch.
• The textbook of Hippocrates ( 460 377 BCE ) mentions geophagia, and the famous medical textbook called " De Medicina " edited by A Cornelius Celsus ( 14 37 CE ) seems to link anaemia to geophagia.
• The textbook of Hippocrates ( 460 377 BCE ) mentions geophagia, and the famous medical textbook called " De Medicina " edited by A Cornelius Celsus ( 14 37 CE ) seems to link anaemia to geophagia.
• In more recent times, according to " Dixie's Forgotten People : the South's Poor Whites ", geophagia was common among poor whites in the South-eastern United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and was often ridiculed in popular literature.
• The literature also states, " Many men believed that eating clay increased sexual prowess, and some females claimed that eating clay helped pregnant women to have an easy delivery . " Geophagia among southerners may have been caused by the high prevalence of hookworm disease, in which the desire to consume soil is a symptom.
• "' Pica "'is characterized by an appetite for substances that are largely non-nutritive, such as ice ( pagophagia ); hair ( trichophagia ); paper ( papyrophagia ); drywall or paint; metal ( metallophagia ); stones ( lithophagia ) or earth ( geophagia ); glass ( hyalophagia ); or feces ( coprophagia ); and chalk.