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 ...

Geophagia has been around for centuries. In the 18th century, Roman physicians reported on the effects of eating dirt. Scholars have studied the act of eating dirt in contemporary urban South Africa.