(9 Jul 2000) Russian/Nat
Doctors in the Baltic republic of Lithuania are researching a 52-year-old woman who has defied nature every day for the last year - by eating nothing but soil from the ground.
Stanislava Montviliene, from the village of Varniai, around 280km from the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, claims she eats around 10kilograms of earth a week, and wishes she could eat more.
It is now over a year since Stanislava started her soil diet.
Together with her husband Bronius, Stanislava regular goes to the nearby woods where she scoops up clumps of earth with her bare hands before eating it either right there, or taking it home to eat by the bucket-load.
She claims she eats around 10 kilos of earth a week.
SOUNDBITE: (Lithuanian)
" A day, no, in a week I eat 15 litres or a bucket. 10 kilos a week."
SUPER CAPTION: Stanislava Montviliene
Her husband has now got used to watching his wife eating the earth by the bucketful.
SOUNDBITE: (Lithuanian)
" It doen't surprise me - I've got used to watching. She eats earth everyday, either at home in the house or in the garden."
SUPER CAPTION: Bronius Montviliene
Doctors are mystified.
SOUNDBITE: (Lithuanian)
I can eat and eat, but my mouth is limited in size, it can't take more.
SUPER CAPTION: Stanislava Montviliene
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