Keep fit and healthy... by EATING 2 POUNDS OF SAND EVERY DAY

**Judah Maccabee** · Posted On: 9/30/2006 10:08am

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_i...9528298791S530

New Delhi - An Indian granny has revealed she eats a kilogram of sand a day to keep fit and healthy.

Eighty-year-old Ram Rati considers sand an essential part of her daily diet and eats it before breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea.

Rati, who lives in Chinhar in Lucknow, told Asian News International: "When young, I tried it for fun once. Since then, I am used to it. My brothers and relatives pestered me to quit it but it was all in vain. I eat on an average around one or one-and-a-half kilos of sand per day."

Shikha, Rati's granddaughter, said: "The doctor said if she has no health problems, let her eat. We think it suits her health." - Ananova.com

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I'm very surprised eating sand doesn't cause health problems. What the hell?

**RedGonzo** · Posted On: 9/30/2006 10:24am

What a beach.

**lovegod** · Posted On: 9/30/2006 10:40am

It must be murder on the lungs and the teeth. Silica inhalation over prolonged time can reak sp? havoc.

Whatever works, lol.

LG

**Teh El Macho** · Posted On: 9/30/2006 10:42am

Well, she is a human, and by definition, a mammal, a chordate, and above all, a protostome.

Sea cucumbers are equinoderms, which are also protostomes, and they eat and poo sand.

So either sand eating is some sort of "legacy" gene from a common sand-eating ancestor... or she is just fucking nuts. :icon_conf

**RedGonzo** · Posted On: 9/30/2006 12:23pm

How do calloused poopah?

**Poop Loops** · Posted On: 9/30/2006 12:43pm

People are starving in developing countries, and she's eating fucking sand.

**Cullion** · Posted On: 9/30/2006 1:06pm

I read somewhere that a lot of ancient egyptians had smoothly rounded teeth from all the sand in their bread.

**War Wizard** · Posted On: 9/30/2006 1:24pm

This reminds of the story about an old lady that drank her own urine because she thought it was the reason was still alive and reasonably healthy at 80 years old.

**LI GUY 1** · Posted On: 9/30/2006 1:26pm

Cullion: is that Simon Morley and David Friend in the avatar!!?? Are you one of them?

**Teh El Macho** · Posted On: 9/30/2006 8:05pm

I keep telling women to swallow cuz of all the zinc in the jing. Zinc is good for the immune system. Still, they do not want to listen, and thus refuse my fountain of youth... go figures...