‘Toilet paper is the cotton candy that doesn’t melt’
Cigarettes, alcohol, gambling, chocolate. These are the things which come to mind when one thinks of addiction, however one woman has been making headlines across the globe for her rather unheard of addiction: eating toilet roll.
Kinah Moore is the woman behind the headlines – and she has admitted eating upwards of two whole toilet roll’s almost every day. Sometimes consuming as many as four.
The woman appeared on This Morning on Monday and detailed just how much paper she gets through, saying: “I get my thousand sheets and sometimes I look up and I’ll be two or three rolls in and that’s from eight o’clock until seven pm and I’m just munching. It can get pretty obsessive.”
Kinah also explained that she has Pica, an eating disorder which sees people consuming products which have no nutritional value, such as plastic, paper, or soap etc.
“It began when I was about eight years old. It started off with things like baking soda or like baking powder and then one day, I don’t know what possessed me to try toilet paper, but I tried toilet paper, and it was just my thing. I just knew it was my thing.
“There was something about the texture. You know like, the baking soda dissolved too fast, baking powder was too fizzy, and the toilet paper’s just like… it sticks. I don’t know. I can’t explain it. It just stuck with me.”
Kinah continued: “I believe it was a craving because I used to crave a bunch of different things. My great grandmother actually used to eat flour. So… I dunno. It was just a craving that I had and everything else dissolved too fast but the toilet paper was like, the cotton candy that doesn’t melt. It was like perfect.”
Kinah added that her sister and her mother both enjoy eating peculiar ‘foods(?)’ however she has it ‘worst’. She also claimed there have been no negative effects to her health and urged people to ‘try it’ reinforcing that ‘it does taste really good’. Hmmm.
While Kinah insists that her health is in good condition, This Morning’s Doctor Sara urged viewers not to feast on toilet paper saying that the condition which Kinah has, Pica, can be harmful and toxic.
Doctor Sara said: “In terms of toilet paper and paper, that’s known as xylophagia, and the problem with toilet paper is that it’s not easily digested by our bodies and can cause blockages in our digestive tracts, it can lead to stomach pains, blood in your stool, vomiting, constipation, and in severe cases it can even require surgical intervention.”
Despite Dr Sara’s pretty intense warning, the hosts then went back to Kinah saying that she looks like she is ‘glowing’.
In case you were still wondering: do not eat toilet paper.
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