The persistent eating of nonfood items such as clay, laundry starch, insects, leaves, or pebbles that lasts for more than 1 month is called
1. pica.
2. bulimia.
3. rumination.
4. regurgitation.
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Pica is the persistent eating of nonfood items that persists longer than 1 month.
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