Sentences with phrase «people eat dirt»

Some people eat dirt because they are missing some kind of vital mineral.

A common explanation for why animals and people eat dirt is that soil contains minerals, such as calcium, sodium and iron, which support energy production and other vital biological processes.

Not exact matches

If «God Almighty» is really so petty as to require people to incant the correct name (whether it's Jesus, Mohammed, Bodhisattva, etc.), eat the «right foods», dress the «right way», treat women like dirt, etc., then God has a lot of growing up to do.

Just because the West has indoor plumbing doesn't mean the rituals are any different than their dirt - worshipping, people - eating cousins.

I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no - good, rotten, four - flushing, low - life, snake - licking, dirt - eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood - sucking, dog - kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat - ass, bug - eyed, stiff - legged, spotty - lipped, worm - headed sack of monkey shit he is!

It was just a couple of weeks ago that I wrote about the global food crisis where the poorest of the poor are being hit the hardest and people in Haiti are resorting to eating dirt «cookies» made from shortening, salt and dirt.

Wow you know that some people are less fortunate then us but wow eating dirt cookies how sad!

In countries like Haiti, people are resorting to literally eating dirt in order to fill their bellies and stay alive.

Geography guide, Matt Rosenberg puts it in perspective, «Most people who eat dirt live in Central Africa and the Southern United States.

Even though the science says that the amount of lead absorbed by plants varies widely (spinach and sunflowers = leady, apple trees and tomatoes = not leady), and even though every study on children who play in the dirt and eat homegrown food (my eight - year - old daughter included) has come back saying that there is no evidence of elevated bodily lead levels, people around here are petrified about growing their own vegetables, and even of letting their kids play in the mud.

According to Kids Health, pica is an eating disorder that causes people to crave and eat non-food items like dirt, clay, soap, chalk, and yes, crayons.

«People here used to eat the dirt,» said Carter, the community activist.

Researchers are taking another look at dirt eating and discovering that the behavior often provides people and animals with vital minerals and inactivates toxins from food and the environment.

The students were studying the evolution of geophagia — the practice of eating dirt, especially claylike soils, which is something animals and people have been doing for millennia.

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I can not cover all the aspects here, but I'd recommend people to read: The Dirt on Clean Eating by Alan Aragon & insulin... an Undeserved Bad Reputation by James Kreiger.

I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no - good, rotten, four - flushing, low - life, snake - licking, dirt - eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood - sucking, dog - kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat - ass, bug - eyed, stiff - legged, spotty - lipped, worm - headed sack of monkey shit he is!

They like to yell, play, run through the house (sometimes with muddy feet), jump on people, put things in their mouths and chew on them, eat tasty foods, explore, look at things, dig holes in mud and sand and dirt, and a host of other things that I don't have time to mention.

But people also get this disease from eating inadequately cooked meat or from contact with dirt that has been contaminated with cat feces.

In humans, pica can drive people to eat rocks, dirt, Styrofoam material and basically anything else that should not be eaten.

It's easy to see why people get a little freaked out when they see a dog eat dirt.

I know of dogs that have been poisoned, dogs that have escaped, dogs that ate rocks and dirt and died, dogs that destroyed decks and siding, dogs that dug up and destroyed entire sprinkler systems, and dogs that have attacked people who entered the yard while the dog was alone and were killed.

We are so NOT «white slipcover» people — we're messy, have a hairy dog who tracks in leaves / dirt / mud / everything else, a sloppy kid, we eat on the sofa regularly etc etc — but as soon as we got it in the house it looked SO good that we're going to give it a try.