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Salt of the earth
There is a man in India who has been eating land for 20 years. Since the age of 28, Nukala Koteswara Rao has eaten at least a kilogram of the most soil per day. Usually she goes “for a snack”, but sometimes, according to him, there are days when he completely refuses to eat. The man is sure that such a habit did not harm his health in any way.
Wash away stress
A 19-year-old Florida medical student struggled with stress by eating five bars of soap a week, ignoring both her knowledge and the warnings on the packaging. Fortunately, with outside help, she got rid of this addiction. She’s clean now.
Gastric lavage
Another well-known “soap” story began in 2018, when a challenge spread across the Internet, which consisted of eating plastic capsules with detergent. Teenagers, sometimes having previously fried the capsules in a pan, ate them in front of the camera and passed the baton to friends. Despite the fact that manufacturers have repeatedly made statements about the dangers of laundry detergents to health, the flash mob continued and eventually led to many cases of poisoning.
Gobies without tomato
One lady named Bianca started gnawing pottery as a child. And over time, the passion for eating strange things brought her to … cigarette ash. According to her, it is so tasty – salty and free-flowing. She doesn’t smoke herself, so she has to empty her sister’s ashtrays. Conveniently.
Clean energy
According to strange statistics, more than 3500 Americans swallow batteries every year. Accidentally or not – it is not clear. Such a diet can lead to serious health problems and at least lead to mercury poisoning. If the battery is in the stomach long enough, stomach acid will dissolve its outer layer and the harmful substance will enter the body. Due to the large number of such cases, batteries have become more resistant to acid.
Let there be light
An Ohio resident named Josh read a book on eating glass and decided to give it a try. In four years, he used more than 250 light bulbs and 100 glasses for wine and champagne. Josh himself says that he likes the “warm feeling” that he gets while eating glass, but admits that shocking and public attention is more important to him than the process itself. But he is still far from the record holder for the number of light bulbs eaten: the illusionist Todd Robbins has about 5000 of them. Although, maybe he just hides them in his pocket, but everyone believes.
Comfortable food
Adele Edwards has been eating furniture for over 20 years and is not going to stop. Every week, she eats enough filler and fabric for an entire cushion. She ate several sofas all the time! Due to her strange diet, she was hospitalized several times with serious stomach problems, so she is currently trying to overcome her addiction.
Instead of popcorn
In one of the TV shows dedicated to the strange addictions of the guests, the woman admitted that she eats one roll of toilet paper a day and even allows herself an extra roll while watching a movie. The heroine of the program claimed that it felt incredible when toilet paper touched her tongue – it was very pleasant. Let’s take your word for it.
The engagement fell through
The Englishman was choosing a wedding ring for his bride, and did not think of anything better than swallowing the jewelry he liked so as not to pay for it. An employee of a jewelry store did not succumb to the man’s assurances that he returned the ring to the window, and called the police. They quickly sorted it out, and after a couple of days the ring was again in the shop window. Most likely in the “markdown” section.
Bad investment
A 62-year-old French man has swallowed about 600 euros worth of coins in ten years. His family said that he pocketed coins while visiting, and ate them later – for dessert. Over time, he ate 5,5 kilograms of small things! True, the surgeons who took these coins out of him had to pay more than was accumulated in his stomach.
Easy Money
In 1970, someone named Leon Sampson bet $ 20 that he could eat a car. And he won. Over the course of a year, he would grind individual parts of the machine in a coffee grinder and mix them with soup or mashed potatoes. The pieces of the machine were not larger than a grain of rice. Whether it was tasty is not reported, but, apparently, iron deficiency in his body is not expected in the next 50 years.
REFERENCE
A mental disorder called picacism was described by Hippocrates. It consists in an uncontrollable desire to eat inedible items.