Extensive research over the last couple of decades has made it obvious that mycotoxins are
commonly prevalent in majority of feed ingredients. A worldwide mycotoxin survey in 2013 …

This paper reviews how the health of humans is affected by the world's soils, an association
that to date has been under appreciated and under reported. Soils significantly influence a …

There are many advantages to defining emotions as states elicited by reinforcers, with the
states having a set of different functions. This approach leads towards an understanding of …

She is an applied health researcher with an interest in understanding the development and
expression of health behaviours, specifically eating behaviours and substance misuse. Her …

Soil can affect human health in several ways leading either to specific diseases or to more
general ill health. Some illnesses are caused by people's eating soil (geophagia), or by their …

Animal Traditions maintains that the assumption that the selection of genes supplies both a
sufficient explanation of the evolution and a true description of its course is, despite its …

We review geophagy, or soil ingestion, in primates. This behaviour is widespread and is
presumed to be important to health and nutrition. Primates may engage in geophagy for one …

Approximately two-thirds of women experience nausea or vomiting during the first trimester
of pregnancy. These symptoms are commonly known as morning sickness. Hook (1976) and …

Geophagia, the eating of dirt, usually clay, has been recorded in every region of the world
both as idiosyncratic behavior of isolated individuals and as culturally prescribed behavior of …

Despite the connections between soils and human health, there has not been a great
amount of attention focused on this area when compared to many other fields of scientific …