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As a parent, you do not want your kids near dirt or play in dusty. However, you can now relax in the event.

Research shows that eating mud or clay can be healthy for the stomach. Eating dirt or mud-consuming geophagy namely to protect the stomach against toxins, parasites and pathogens.

Researchers at Cornell University in New York, studied more than 480 culture along with the missionaries, doctors, horticulturist, and explorers. They found that the earth acts as a shield against parasites and poisonous plants.

Stools may also provide nutrients needed for human beings and to supplement nutritional deficiencies such as iron, zinc, or calcium.

Lead investigator, Sera Young said that geophagy culture was first derived from the time of Hippocrates more than 2,000 years ago. Geophagy do women in the early stages of pregnancy and pre-teen children. The second period was a time most sensitive to parasites and pathogens.

This condition is also common in the tropics where the microbes associated with food are plentiful. The study found that people tend to eat dirt when she felt a stomach ache. The study was published in June 2011 in The Quarterly Review of Biology journal.