Angelica is six months pregnant. she has always had a healthy appetite so far in her pregnancy, but lately, she has been craving for nonfood items such as paper, chalk, and sand. angelica most likely has a pregnancy-related disorder called _____.
Pica is an eating disorder that involves eating items that are not typically thought of as food and that do not contain significant nutritional value, such as hair, dirt, and paint chips. Pica is the practice of craving substances with little or no nutritional value. Most pregnancy and pica related cravings involve non-food substances such as dirt or chalk. The word pica is Latin for magpie which is a bird notorious for eating almost anything.
