Rochester Institute of Technology researcher Brenda Abu is investigating the relationship between the eating practice known as pica and iron deficiency anemia among pregnant women in Rochester, N.Y.

Pica is an eating disorder where an individual has a preference for eating items that have no perceived nutritional value to the human body. The disorder is most commonly exhibited by women and young ...

Researchers and doctors don’t understand what causes pica, but sometimes it could be caused by another medical problem, such as iron deficiency anemia or other nutritional deficiencies. It’s hard to ...

Pica refers to when a person craves or eats nonfood items, such as paint chips or sand. Most medical guides classify pica as an eating disorder. Some women may develop pica during pregnancy. People ...

A quiet but clinically recognised eating disorder often hides in plain sight, emerging through behaviours that may seem unusual yet not immediately alarming. Pica involves the repeated consumption of ...

You are what you eat — and for those with pica, that can be downright dangerous. Perhaps most famously seen on TLC’s reality show “My Strange Addiction,” the eating disorder drives people to consume ...

Children who experience eating difficulties, including undereating, overeating, and fussy eating are more likely to experience pica—an eating disorder characterized by eating non-food items such as ...

The father who came to our family-medicine clinic with his young daughter seemed concerned. The girl, he said, had become a voracious consumer of books. But not in a good way. “She eats them,” he ...

Pica is an eating disorder where a person has a strong and persistent urge to eat non-edible items be it glass, clay, foam, chalk, to paint. It's not unusual for infants to put non-edible items in ...

There are numerous eating disorders, namely binge eating, anorexia, bulimia nervosa and one disorder that caught our attention is Pica syndrome, the eating disorder that is not about food. Surprised, ...