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Cindy is pregnant with her first baby. recently, she began to eat clay from a hole that she dug in her yard. cindy's behavior is an example of _____.

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Cindy's behavior is an example of Pica. It is a dietary issue normally characterized as the industrious ingestion of nonnutritive substances for no less than 1 month at an age for which this conduct is formatively wrong. It might be benevolent or may have perilous results
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