Why do culture obsessively drink rime during iron less anemia?
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This practice is called pica. Other examples of pica include intake starch, dirt, and clay. It is a big problem in children, those near developmental disorders, and pregnant women. Right now nobody really understand why this is done, but there are risk factor, iron deficiency person one of them, but also othr mineral deficiencies. There is also clearly a cultural aspect to this. It is thought that folks who suffer from pica tend to eat non-nutritive foods, becuase it is culturally proper, and it may be learned from someone else.
You can read more roughly speaking pica here:
http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic1798.h.
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