Most people sweep dirt into the trash, but a grassroots social media trend suggests sprinkling it on your lunch as a healthy treat. Health experts, however, say the risks of injury and disease far ...

If you crave a snack of dirt and clay, you may be pregnant. New research shows that eating dirt, also called geophagy, is most common during the early stages of pregnancy and in young children, where ...

Want to improve your gut health, reduce wrinkles, and even cure acne? Eat dirt. At least, according to the latest health trend making the rounds on TikTok. “[One] teaspoon of organic biodynamic soil ...

Hundreds of animal species also seek out and eat earth. In most cases, the earth that is craved is not the dark, humus-rich soil in your garden, but is rather smooth and clay-rich. {mosads}The recent ...

Oct. 3, 2005 — -- It melts in your mouth like chocolate, says Ruth Anne T. Joiner, describing her favorite treat. "The good stuff is real smooth," she adds. "It's just like a piece of candy." ...

Online, "crunchers," or people who regularly eat dirt, claim soil consumption improves their ski, gut health and immune system. It’s not longer their dirty little secret. “Crunchers,” or folks with ...

The solution to obesity was right under our feet this whole time. No, really: That’s the conclusion drawn by researchers at the University of South Australia, who were studying how clay dirt materials ...

The practice of geophagy – eating earth – is surprisingly common, and while in some parts of the world it is regarded as an eating disorder, in others it is actively encouraged. But why would people ...

The parrots of Southeastern Peru crave an earthy delicacy: dirt. At the Colorado clay lick, a cliff face rising above the Tambopata River in the western Amazon Basin, parrots — often hundreds at a ...