While your brain knows chalk isn’t food, your body can see chalk as a solution to a hunger pang or a nutritional deficit, signaling a desire or “craving” for it.Īnecdotally, some individuals who have anxiety or OCD report that the consistency and taste of chalk make it soothing to chew on. People experiencing food insecurity or hunger pain may find themselves drawn to eating chalk. Monument Rocks can be seen in the distance from highway US-83 if you know where to look. There are signs at the turn off (6 miles of gravel roads) from both north and south. AN investigation of the paloecology of the Chalk Rock of south-central England (OxfordshireHertfordshire) has led me to believe that the most important. The types of nutritional deficiencies that would cause a person to crave chalk, specifically, aren’t completely clear, but researchers have long theorized that eating chalk is connected to having low zinc and low iron. Monument Rocks and Chalk Pyramids are names for the same group of rock outcroppings, near US-83 in western Kansas. Each formation represents a different world, and each.
Pica is considered a type of eating disorder, and it is also linked to obsessive-compulsive behaviors, malnutrition, and pregnancy.Ī 2015 review of studies involving over 6,000 individuals with pica symptoms linked the condition to low red blood cell count as well as lower levels of zinc in the blood. Chalk rock is very hard, closer to the hard limestones of Cheddar Gorge than the soft, crumbly white stuff that most of us think of as chalk. People with pica want to (and often do) eat raw starch, dirt, ice, or chalk, among other things. Pica is the desire to eat non-foodstuffs, or materials that aren’t meant for human consumption. Why do some people eat chalk specifically?
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