Philip Webre

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For example, pregnant women sometimes suffer from pica: the uncontrollable urge to eat things like dirt or hair or pencil shavings. The placenta sucks a lot of iron out of a pregnant woman’s body, and women who have pica also tend to have iron deficiencies.
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
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