geophagism

基本解释

To get rid of livestock's disease of paralysis, cartilage and also can prevent pig and chicken's geophagy.
防避畜禽軟骨症、癱瘓症、以及防止豬、雞的異食癖症;
It may also explain why geophagy is often most common among pregnant women and nursing mothers.
這也或可解釋喫土習慣爲何在孕婦和哺乳的母親身上通常最爲常見。
Unfortunately, geophagy is also practiced to avoid hunger pains when other food is scarce.
遺憾的是，一旦其他食物缺乏，人們也喫土以避免挨餓之苦。
Geophagy also has a long history in the U.S., where some eat clay and ship packages of it to relatives far from home.
喫土的做法在美國也歷史悠久，有些人會喫土，還寄一包包泥土給客居他鄕的親人。
Yet, geophagy is actually relatively common practice in many parts of the world.
對，食土辟實際上在世界各地相對來講是較爲普遍的。