Bizarre Eating Habits
1. "Doctors find coins in patient's belly"
< http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2004/02/18/352411-ap.html >
"He had swallowed around 350 coins - worth about $860 Cdn - along with
assorted necklaces and needles" [with x-ray]
2. "Israeli woman swallows cockroach, fork"
< http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2003/07/10/132443-ap.html >
"An Israeli woman swallowed a cockroach and right after it, down went a
fork she used to try to fish the critter out of her throat" [with x-ray]
3. "Doctors brush up on surgery skills"
< http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1026247.htm >
"Doctors in the northern Tanzanian town of Arusha have performed an
operation on a 54-year-old man who accidentally swallowed a toothbrush"
4. Human Hairballs
* "Woman eats mother's hair" [India]
< http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_807964.html >
"An Indian woman who likes eating her mother's hair is recovering in
hospital after doctors removed a half kilogram bundle of it from her
digestive system"
* "Giant hairball removed from girl's stomach" [Turkey]
< http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s942801.htm >
"Surgeons in eastern Turkey have removed a two-kilogram hairball from
the stomach of a 17-year-old girl"
* "Giant hairball removed from girl's stomach" [Costa Rica]
< http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_831863.html >
"A 12-year-old Costa Rican girl who complained of a tummy ache has had
a 17 inch hairball removed from her stomach"
* "Surgeons remove giant hairball" [Canada]
< http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/11132003_bb_hairball.html >
"Surgeons removed a grapefruit-sized hairball from the stomach of a
three-year-old Canadian girl"
5. "Thai man says eating worms keeps him healthy"
< http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_815432.html >
[warning - has photos]
6. "Cockroach eater, world record attempt"
< http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2003/03/20/47339.html >
