The world over is filled to the brim with people who absolutely adore food – those who love to cook it, photograph it, eat it, and write about it. However, there are a few special individuals lurking within the world that have some incredibly shocking and disgusting eating habits that should make more people cringe when they hear about it. They may think what they are doing is nutritious or perhaps even slightly normal, but there is probably nothing normal about consuming urine or your daughter’s breast milk, for example. Here are 7 people with incredibly shocking eating habits.
7. Daughter’s Milk
7. Daughter’s Milk
Tim Browne began drinking his daughter’s breast milk with his morning cereal after contracting cancer. Researchers have said there is a cure for cancer somewhere in human milk, and Browne was one such patient.
6. Urine
6. Urine
Carie, a 53-year-old woman, began drinking her own urine at a later period in her life. Apparently, this middle-aged woman washes her teeth and face in her own urine while she is enjoying her nightly bath, too. 80 ounces of the fluid goes into her body every day…and out of it.
5. Ash
5. Ash
Eating ash is probably one of the more bizarre items consumed by a human being, but Casie, a 26-year-old, lost her husband, and then began to eat his remains to remember the man she had once slept beside every night.
4. Foam
4. Foam
Adele Edwards somehow began chewing the foam from inside pillows and couches, finding it oddly delectable. She would pull the white foam from her furniture and munch on it as if it were normal. She was hospitalized after a blockage formed.
3. Scorpion Venom
3. Scorpion Venom
Li Luiqin, 58, has an odd addiction to deadly scorpion venom. He claims the venom is actually quite tasty, and has apparently formed some form of a tolerance to the poisonous substance. After being stung, Li bit off the head of the scorpion, and his addiction formed.
2. Human Blood
2. Human Blood
Julie Caples finds that drinking cups of human blood actually makes her feel healthier and stronger. Willing donors even visit her and offer up their own blood so she may feed her addiction and stay strong.
1. Heavy Metal
1. Heavy Metal
Michel Lotito, 57, is known for having one of the strongest stomachs and intestinal tracts in the entire world. This is wonderful, as he has a record for eating 18 bicycles, 15 shopping carts, seven television sets, six chandeliers, two beds, and even an entire coffin.