Another dangerous trend becomes viral in social media, chalk eating or chalk chewing videos
News24xx.com - It sounds strange, but now there are many videos circulating that people eating chalks on Instagram. Most uploaders are women from Russia and several other countries. If you write the #chalkeating hashtag, you can find more than 71,000 videos of people eating chalk.
Meanwhile, if you are typing #chalkasmr, you will got the results for more than 34,000 videos of people trying to bite chalk. This video on average shows person's effort to chew and eat a chalk board or a industrial chalk.
Quoted from the Motherboard, December 13th 2018, one of the uploaders of the chalk-eating video admitted that even though he bit or chewed the chalk, he did not swallow it. "Almost every person who chews chalk does not swallow it because it will cause digestive problems" said the source.
The video for eating chalk turns out to be intended for video content Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR). Some people deliberately seek 'pleasure' through hearing other people's voices when biting and chewing chalk.
Then is this safe for health? Medically, chalk is not recommended for consumption. U.S. National Library of Medicine explains that eating large amounts of chalk can cause various health problems such as abdominal pain, constipation, diarrhea, and nausea and vomiting.
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