Our formative study on pica practices and beliefs among Mexican women in the US and Mexico has just been published in Maternal and Child Nutrition. We found that more than 1/3 of women reported pica behavior during pregnancy, especially earth, adobe, bean stones and ice. This paper is the result of collaboration with scientists at the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico and the School of Public Health at University of California Berkeley. A special congratulations to Janice Lin (pictured here with Livia González and Cynthia Jeannette, the study translators) this is her first first-author paper!