Sentence examples for eat substances from inspiring English sources

How about compulsive nail biting, knuckle cracking or pica, the disorder that causes people to eat substances like cornstarch, chalk or dirt?

Nor would you eat substances like Go-Gurt, eat them on the run or eat them at mealtimes that are so out of sync with friends and relatives that the real family dinner is an endangered ritual.

Pica is typically defined in scientific communities as "the persistent eating of non-nutritive substances" [4] or "the tendency or craving to eat substances other than normal foodstuffs" [5].

Cravings are often the body's subliminal attempt to signal a person to eat substances and nutrients in which they are deficient.

Blood lead levels peak in children at around 2 years of age, and hand-to-mouth behavior and pica (eating substances not normally eaten e.g., soil or paint chips) are significantly associated with elevated blood lead levels (Lanphear et al. 2002).

The Val66Met variant affects anatomy, cognition and behaviour in adults [7] and leads to memory impairment [5] and susceptibility to obsessive-compulsive, eating, substance abuse and mood disorders [6, 8 10].

So there are people who for medical reasons cannot eat certain substances.

Are we letting the chemical industry decide what is safe for us to eat? Toxic substances -- how does the government prevent them from getting into the products we buy?

Another 8 million abortions are "least safe," or they were performed using potentially deadly methods — such as inserting objects into women's bodies, or having them eat caustic substances, like lye.

Establishing that other people in the community eat these substances may help the respondent to feel less embarrassed about his or her own pica behavior.

Similarly, fruit flies that eat this substance suffer no dramatic effects themselves, but all of their offspring die as larvae [40].