Ramrati: UP's famous sand eater

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Lucknow, Oct 9 (UNI) Medical faternity is amazed at this 80-year-old's ablity to eat sand on a daily basis, who can cook, knit and sew without spectacles and has no age-related problems.

Doctors describe octagenarian Ramrati Mishra's bizzare habit as a ''fantastic case study''.

She eats a kilo-and-a-half of sand every day and claims to have developed a taste for sand 40 years ago. Initially, she started with mud and chalk and later tried her taste buds with sand. While she discontinued eating mud and chalk, she somehow could not give up sand. Her family took her to various doctors and even used ''pressure tactics'' but failed to make her give up the freak habit.

Her daughter-in-law Sarita claims doctors even gave her calcium supplements to enable her ditch the habit, but nothing worked.

Ramrati eats about 300 gm of sand before breakfast and an equivalent amount before lunch. ''She has sand instead of snacks with her evening tea and then before dinner. We procure sand for her from the nearby construction sites and decant it. Sometimes she also roasts sand on fire in order to give it a different taste,'' added Sarita.

Ramrati, a mother of four sons and as many daughters, has never suffered from indigestion or irritable bowel syndrome. Locals now believe that her fitness is a result of sand eating.

UNI NAB SB SP DS1125

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