Woman eats sand for health

I found this yesterday in the WIERD BUT TRUE section of the New York Post.

A granny in India says she stays healthy by eating 2 1/2 pounds of sand a day.
Ram Rati, 80, of Lucknow considers sand an essential part of her diet and eats it before breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea!

Did they forget to add the "wiches" after "sand"? Damn tabloid papers!

Ouch!!

Its not the going in I'd worry about...

Tim in England

actually, I think that is some type of syndrome, mental illness (?), whatever, where people are compelled to eat dirt and things like that....

as I said, OUCH! guess she wouldn't need toilet paper! (sorry, couldn't help myself given the latest thread on wiping.....)

I could see some nutritional value, minerals perhaps. In the southern US after the war of northern agression (sometimes mistakenly referred to as the Civil War) people were reduced to eating dirt for minerals. The custom persists in poor populations that migrated to other areas such as LA..

And Maraji Desai drank his own urine.

Each to his own

I've been told that dirt eating still occurs in some of the more impoverished parts of India, where people are subsisting on little more than starchy water some days.

Shilijit, that's pretty much "dirt" there are also various stories of Yogis in India existing on sand, never really seen the point of that though!

its all in the silicon thats the major constituent of sand. all our computers run on silicon chips


though i do wonder the constituent of lucknow sand unless this gal is getting it shipped from somewhere else....hmmm..let me check ebay~ ...that white sand beach on my last vacation was awesome and would make good garnish.

It seems to me that maybe it's a great way to clean the colon! And today many people rave about that a clean colon is the way to a healthy body.I remember seeing the singer James Brown in an interview on T.V. and he had his colon cleaned and he said he felt much healthier after it. So maybe it's not so crazy afterall!

Man a sand blasted colon!!!! Give me that colodial silver any day!

babies and tots eat sand in the beach all the time. and nothing major happens other than sandy poop...

sand blasted colon.. ..though might have to watch out for chips of sea shells..

guess she has not yet got rid of her childhood habit of eating sand or soil.... some kids if not given appropriate nutrient doses(may be lack of mothers milk or something) do indulge(well, how do they come to know in the first place???) into eating sand, licking small stones and even soil......for some reason I remember the taste of black soil..its kinda not bad......ummm was it while my face down collapses or yes may be while eating the groundnuts directly from the uprooted plants in the fields...

It works for birds. But then they have rather different digestive systems.

Hey! I've even heard of people eating vegetables for health!