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Grandmother who lives on 1KG of sand daily claims to be perfectly healthy

India:   This sprightly elderly lady claims to be super healthy - despite a bizarre addiction to eating sand.

Locals in India say Sudama Devi first munched sand for a joke with friends when she was just ten-years-old but now eats up to a kilogram of the stuff everyday.

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