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EDIBLE CLAY
Edible clay is a type of which can be chewed and swallowed (mainly limestones). It has been a secret addiction/ eating disorder for which people have been performing for years. It is criticized by those who believe only food should be ingested and those who do otherwise should go to a psychiatric ; nevertheless this addiction known as PICA or geophogia has been practiced over thousands of years.

HISTORY
The consumption of clay is ancestral; clay eating 'surely came from the first epochs of the domestication of potatoes' as it is said that the first potatoes were toxic .In Peru during 1599 documentation about clay and potatoes was written for the first time in the book Historias del Nuevo mundo. In 1800s Pica was a common practice within the slave population, it is the consumption of clay was used to treat mineral deficiency.

In today's day businesses have been created in order to satisfy the needs of those people who crave edible clay, on of this businesses is Clay's Station, who sales a variety of edible clays and chalks all over the world.