Chewing ice is officially recognized as a symptom of iron deficiency anemia, a condition known as pagophagia; when your body lacks enough iron to produce adequate hemoglobin,…

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Chewing ice is officially recognized as a symptom of iron deficiency anemia, a condition known as pagophagia; when your body lacks enough iron to produce adequate hemoglobin, your brain desperately seeks ways to stay alert, and the rapid chilling effect of crunching on frozen water sends a jolt of oxygen-rich blood to your head; so instead of fixing your poor diet or buying supplements, your body decides the best course of action is to destroy your expensive dental work by acting like a human snow cone machine, proving once again that human biology is essentially a series of duct-tape fixes designed by a stressed architect who gave up on a friday afternoon