A resident of India is addicted to eating land and claims that for 20 years he has been absorbing at least a kilogram of soil per day. Reported by Newsflare. Nukala Koteshwara Rao from the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh developed an unusual habit when he was 28 years old. According to him, there are days when he completely refuses normal food and is supported only by earth. Rao assures that the strange diet did not harm his health in the least.
Eating the earth is called geophagy or earth science and is common in many countries. In Gabon, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, the clay mineral, kaolinite, is eaten with pepper and cardamom. In Haiti, hunger is quenched with mud pies, salt and vegetables. The Indonesian dish ampo is baked from soil from rice fields. Most often, women eat the earth, especially during pregnancy. In 2007, it was reported that Sheng Shoudong, a resident of China's Jiangxi province, eats three to four tablespoons of river sand every day. He believed that this helped him get rid of liposarcoma and stomach ulcers.
