9 Reasons You Need to Stop Chewing Ice ASAP

You may be masking something serious

Eating ice may seem innocuous, but if it becomes a compulsive habit you could be doing serious damage to yourself. (Here are 10 other bad habits you should quit). In fact, chewing ice compulsively, called pagophagia, is a variant of pica—an eating disorder in which one craves non-food items (think hair, glue, dirt, and worse) can be a sign of a host of other very serious physical, mental and emotional ailments, all of which can have long-term consequences for your well-being.