American man with pica eats 60,000 plastic bags in 16 years
Robert said the blue plastic bags for newspapers were "the tastiest".
China news network January 25, according to foreign media reports, a man in the United States suffering from pica, love to eat plastic bags. Over the past decade, he has eaten 60,000 plastic bags, but it has no effect on his health.
Robert, a 23-year-old man from Tennessee, US, reportedly started his plastic bag addiction at the age of seven and would eat a plastic bag for breakfast every day. Sometimes he would drive around the neighborhood to "forage" for food, blue plastic bags thrown by neighbors outside the house, and clear plastic bags of vegetables and fruits in the grocery store.
Robert said that different colored plastic bags taste different, but the blue one containing newspapers "tastes the most delicious." Robert sometimes eats the plastic bag so hard that he doesn't have to eat his dinner for a long time.
Over the past 16 years, Robert has eaten 60,000 plastic bags, an area large enough to cover an American football field. Despite the risk of liver damage and intestinal blockage from eating plastic, a physical examination revealed he was remarkably fine.