Sudama Devi is a mother of four, in her late eighties, and has eaten sand for most of her adult life.
When Sudama was still a nine-year-old girl, she argued with her friends that she would eat a whole meal of sand, and after the argument was won, she suddenly realized that the unusual delicacy was to her taste. What was to be done? The girl, secretly from her parents, began to eat sand, and already, as an adult woman, she continued to eat it, not having the strength to stop.
Sudama finds sand unusually tasty, and eats it at least a kilogram a day, using it as an additive to ordinary food, and sometimes eating it dry, and sometimes diluting it in a glass of water. And what is most surprising, in her years a woman does not complain about her health at all and has an excellent appetite.
A pertinent question arises - does not our body know better than ourselves and all the world's doctors combined, what it really needs? Because, apparently, Sudama Devi's desire to eat sand did not arise by itself, but was prompted to her intuitively, even in childhood, when she felt the need for unusual food. Judging by the state of health of the elderly woman, it becomes obvious that her body not only does not repel foreign food, on the contrary, easily assimilating it, it seems even quite satisfied with the diet chosen by Sudama.
In medicine, this phenomenon is called cicero. People with a perverse appetite who choose the most seemingly inedible things as a snack: dirt, soap, stones, and even, you can imagine, glass, are found all over the world.
For example, another eater of the inedible Indian, Pakkirappa Hunagund, has been eating stones for over twenty years without any problems, and he, too, has everything in order with his health, even his teeth are so strong that any person can envy them.
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This strange disease is written not only in medical reference books: whether the writer Gabriel García Márquez knew about the cicero is not known, but Rebeca, one of the heroines of his novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, acquired a pernicious habit as a child, from which they tried to wean her with difficulty., - the girl ate the earth and lime from the walls of the house. Even as an adult girl, Rebeca continued to do this in moments of extreme nervous excitement.