Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe CHANGSHA, China, April 24 (UPI) -- A Chinese man doesn’t get iron in his diet from his breakfast cereal -- he gets it from eating nails. Long Yunsheng apparently learned how to eat iron nails when he was a teenager about 32 years ago, and all he needs is a glass of water to wash them down. Advertisement Long is able to swallow nails that are up to two inches long. "I was 17 or 18 years old. I was not sure that the man who can do this was willing to teach me,” Long said. "If a teacher likes you, he teaches you. If not, he refuses teach you." In spite of his odd diet, Long is in good health. The same can’t be said for a Changsha man who was hospitalized after he removed two large nails that he swallowed during an argument with his ex-girlfriend. "I was so angry then that I swallowed two nails. But I still failed to save the relationship," the man told the Global Times. "The lump broke soon after and some yellow liquid oozed out. Then I could see two black objects in the wound.” Advertisement The 25-year-old reportedly pulled the nails out with his fingers. Ouch. Read More Foreign worker program leads to Canadian unemployment, report says Houston woman doesn't want to go on camera, so TV station films her crotch American journalist held by pro-Russian separatists is freed Philadelphia-area ophthalmologist and daughter charged with growing marijuana Verizon sees higher net income, but is losing contract mobile customers to rivals
