Cargando…

Toward a Comprehensive Approach to the Collection and Analysis of Pica Substances, with Emphasis on Geophagic Materials

BACKGROUND: Pica, the craving and subsequent consumption of non-food substances such as earth, charcoal, and raw starch, has been an enigma for more than 2000 years. Currently, there are little available data for testing major hypotheses about pica because of methodological limitations and lack of a...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Young, Sera L., Wilson, M. Jeffrey, Miller, Dennis, Hillier, Stephen
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2522275/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18773081
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003147