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There’s a guy in India who is addicted to eating bricks

Sunday, April 13, 2014 5:55
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There’s a guy in India who is addicted to eating bricks

Meet the man addicted to eating bricksPakkirappa Hunagundi chomps down on a brick in Gadag, India (Picture: Dominic Rodrigous / Barcroft India)

Meet the Indian man hoping to find fame and fortune by showcasing his unusual appetite for eating bricks.

Pakkirappa Hunagundi suffers from a rare eating disorder and says he is addicted to eating only bricks, gravel and mud.

‘I only like mud and bricks, nothing else,’ he told Barcroft TV. ‘I will eat it because it is my habit. I need it every day. I can’t stop.

‘My mother asks me not to eat it, but I won’t stop. Even if you give me fried chicken, I want mud at any cost.’

The 30-year-old has been eating bricks since the age of ten. He now eats up to one brick a day and three kilos of mud and gravel to fulfill his craving.

It is believed he suffers from a condition known as Pica, the persistent eating of non-food items with no nutritional value.

***EXCLUSIVE***  GADAG, INDIA - UNDATED: Pakkirappa Hunagundi seen chewing a brick in Gadag, India.  AN Indian man says he is addicted to eating bricks, gravel and mud. Pakkirappa Hunagundi, 30, first developed a taste for the non-edible objects when he was 10. Ever since he says he has consumed up to three kilos of debris a day found lying in his village in Karnataka, India. But despite his strange eating disorder - thought to be caused by a condition called Pica - he insists he hasn't suffered any ill-effects.  PHOTOGRAPH BY  Dominic Rodrigous / Barcroft India  UK Office, London. T +44 845 370 2233 W www.barcroftmedia.com  USA Office, New York City. T +1 212 796 2458 W www.barcroftusa.com  Indian Office, Delhi. T +91 11 4053 2429 W www.barcroftindia.comPakkirappa Hunagundi plans to travel across India (Picture: Dominic Rodrigous / Barcroft India)

‘We find it extremely strange,’ said one local.

Mr Hunagundi has ignored pleas from friends and family to change his diet and now plans to travel across India to show off his brick-eating abilities.

He says he hasn’t suffered any ill-effects from his unusual diet.

Source: http://metro.co.uk/

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