Darlings

I know PIKA or PICA is a strange condition that is in pregnant women. Usually it is a deficiency in the diet. Often diagnosed as a mineral. Your habit could be a mineral deficiency.

Try this simple test. Buy a packet of a variety of nuts and seeds (like sunflower seeds) but in separate packets. Eat a handful of each different type of nut on different days. When you seem to be hungry for one type and keep going back for more until you feel full and satisfied, you are DEFICIENT in the mineral that is in that particular nut.

Check out it's nutrient value on the internet. Develop good dietary habits to include this missing nutrient and its other food components in your meals.

OR you do have a nervous or emotional affliction... then you have to ask yourself why you do this habit and what triggers it off. Sometimes it is BOREDOM and "chewing" is self soothing therapy... like a baby chews on a pacifier/dummy.

Hope this helps.