Most people sweep dirt into the trash, but a grassroots social media trend suggests sprinkling it on your lunch as a healthy treat. Health experts, however, say the risks of injury and disease far ...

If you crave a snack of dirt and clay, you may be pregnant. New research shows that eating dirt, also called geophagy, is most common during the early stages of pregnancy and in young children, where ...

Online, "crunchers," or people who regularly eat dirt, claim soil consumption improves their ski, gut health and immune system. It’s not longer their dirty little secret. “Crunchers,” or folks with ...

Eating a side of a certain kind of dirt with your dinner might help to prevent obesity by flushing fat out of your system, new research suggests. Australian researchers found that obese rats that ate ...

The solution to obesity was right under our feet this whole time. No, really: That’s the conclusion drawn by researchers at the University of South Australia, who were studying how clay dirt materials ...

Oct. 3, 2005 — -- It melts in your mouth like chocolate, says Ruth Anne T. Joiner, describing her favorite treat. "The good stuff is real smooth," she adds. "It's just like a piece of candy." ...

Hundreds of animal species also seek out and eat earth. In most cases, the earth that is craved is not the dark, humus-rich soil in your garden, but is rather smooth and clay-rich. {mosads}The recent ...