Woman eats rocks

The processes occurring in the human brain, especially in mental disorders still remain for scientists mystery - an elderly American woman, mother of two children regularly and gladly absorbs ... stones and gravel.



45-year-old American, teacher of kindergarten for children with special needs does not hide his love of the shocking absorption stones - she did not even wash them before eating and sucking mud, rolling pebbles in his mouth like a lollipop.

Woman masterfully managed with a big hammer, which she crushes large rocks as split nuts



"I like the stones with a taste of the land," - says she is his "gourmet" secrets.

In fact, Teresa Widener (Teresa Widener) sufficiently serious conduct disorder, called pica, or in her case, a more accurate term would be litofagiya, that is precisely the desire for eating stones.



Teresa has been doing this for over 20 years - it claims she allegedly suffered from anemia, hemoglobin levels in her body dropped, and gravel and rocks rich in iron to improve its condition.

In fact, its explanation does not hold water because the full-blooded woman bodied does not like weedy victim of anemia and iron in the rubble no more than, say, in the lunar soil.



Teresa Widener was the guest of a talk show on one of the American TV channels, where right in front of the television cameras she gladly ate a few small stones and a large stone here in the studio skillfully shattered into several small, which also engulfed the eyes of viewers.



Meanwhile, an unusual passion, glorified Teresa throughout the country, can bring it to gastric bleeding, as well as to infection by dangerous parasites - to help a woman can only psychiatrists, but it does not see or does not want to see anything unusual in his "hobby»

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