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Pagophagia (from Greek: pagos, frost/ice, + phagÅ, to eat [1]) is the compulsive consumption of ice or iced drinks. [2] It is a form of the disorder known as pica, which in Latin refers to a magpie that eats everything indiscriminately. [3]
The craving for eating ice can be a sign of a specific type of anemia caused by iron deficiency, although Boutwell says it’s not clear why this happens. “There seems to be a dopamine release ...
On a day so hot you could fry an egg on a sidewalk, it's natural to crave all things cold. You may scream for ice cream or put twice as much ice into your favorite beverage. As for an ice bath ...
A cold-stimulus headache, colloquially known as an ice-cream headache or brain freeze, is a form of brief pain or headache commonly associated with consumption (particularly quick consumption) of cold beverages or foods such as ice cream, popsicles, and snow cones.
Amy Mendelovich, a Russian-born woman, has been eating junk food and drinking 30 cans of cola a day every since she came to America. Despite having a health scare where she found a lump, which was linked to her cola consumption, she was in denial about her addiction and refused to slow down her consumption, and according to the epilogue, she ...
1. Pizza. Why, of course, it would be pizza, and not steamed broccoli, because apparently, everything that tastes good comes with a catch. Pizza, one of — if not the — most universally loved ...
There is some evidence of the existence of a so-called "adrenergic postprandial syndrome": the blood glucose level is normal, and the symptoms are caused through autonomic adrenergic response. [6] Often, this syndrome is associated with emotional distress and anxious behaviour of the patient. [7] [8]