The term Fagia comes from the Greek " Phagei " which indicates " Eat ". It is used as a prefix or suffix to determine nutrition or eating behavior. In general, the different facets of a Phagia are driven by a bad eating habit, this coupled with some natural digestive problem that the patient is presenting. These anomalies, some considered diseases, must be treated with strict medical supervision, tied to a rigorous diet.in which the possible source of evil is primarily eliminated. Other types of Fagia show us an excessive attraction to a particular food, these conditions could turn into diseases, because the organism when adapting to a single type of food, stops receiving the nutrients and proteins that other foods contain.
Phagias are descriptive of manias or compulsions of an abnormal psychological state, these are associated with mental and psychological problems that lead to extra behaviors such as violence or aggressiveness. If a person with a Phagia is repressed the need to ingest his desired snack, his desire will tell him to do everything possible to find it, regardless in many cases that these present obstacles may affect the normal life of the society that surrounds him. Most of these addictive phagias happen with foods or products that are not healthy, others are too extreme and in the list that we show below, we see that they have a place for themselves.
• BACTERIOFAGIA: Eating bacteria.
• COPROFAGIA: Eating feces.
• PHYTOPHAGIA: Eating plants.
• FOLIOFAGIA: Eating leaves.
• GEOPHAGY: Eat earth.
• HEMATOFAGIA: Eating blood.
• LEPIDOFAGIA: Eat scales.
• MONOPHAGO or MONOPHAGY: Food based on a single type of food (for example, a single species).
• NECROPHAGY: Eating dead animals.
• OPHIOFAGIA: Eating snakes.
• OLIGOPHAGIA: Feeding on a few specific types of food (for example a single genus of plants).
• OOFAGIA: Eat eggs.
• PAEDOFAGIA: Eating offspring of other species.
• POLYPHAGY: Feeding on many kinds of food (for example all or many) of the species of a plant family.
• RHIZOPHAGIA: Eating roots.
• SAPROFAGIA: Eating decomposing organic matter.
• XILOPHAGIA: Eating wood.
