Sentence examples for eating soil from inspiring English sources

Geophagy, the practice of eating soil or rock, has been observed in orangutans.

Fans of the original vitamin D claim eating soil and clay can improve your immune system and give you a massive does of minerals.

Sifakas have been observed eating soil from termite mounds, possibly adding beneficial intestinal flora to aid the digestion of cellulose from their folivorous diet.

Some of the respondents (29.4%, n = 100) were not sure whether eating soil provides nutrients to mother and unborn baby.

For instance, more than half (58.7%, n = 91) of the pregnant women who practiced geophagy believed that eating soil stops/prevents morning sickness.

The majority of all participants practicing geophagy did not believe that eating soil ensures a healthy pregnancy or prevents prolonged labor.

When she was pregnant with Sasha, she'd had a weird craving to eat soil.

In addition, reindeer grazing where plant cover is thin tend to eat soil along with lichen, becoming infected that way, Bogdanov said.

Terrestrial gastropods regularly eat soil [40], and therefore, they accumulate heavy metals not only via food from the food chain, but also via contaminated soil.

In addition to the exposure to HMs via food uptake, land snails regularly eat soil and they are also exposed to HMs via epithelial contact [40].

Comparisons were made between women who indicated that they ate soil and those who indicated that they did not eat soil.