I knew that the punch line of the ice-eating anecdote would be that you had an iron deficiency because Seth Roberts has mentioned it on his blog. He’s drawn an analogy between pagophagia and a deficiency of fermented food. He spells it out here, but your report is distinctly at odds with his evolutionary explanation for ice-eating. I think this is evidence that he’s got some good ideas but his standards for verification are too low.
Which did you find more satisfying:
sucking on the ice and letting it melt
chewing it to bits
The former. I only chewed on ice that I’d already been sucking on for a while that had gotten very small.
I knew that the punch line of the ice-eating anecdote would be that you had an iron deficiency because Seth Roberts has mentioned it on his blog. He’s drawn an analogy between pagophagia and a deficiency of fermented food. He spells it out here, but your report is distinctly at odds with his evolutionary explanation for ice-eating. I think this is evidence that he’s got some good ideas but his standards for verification are too low.