Have you ever seen commericals on gum claiming that chewing their gum will lower your snack cravings, therefore, contribute to weight loss? I know I have, and for a while, I was very convinced that this did actually have quite an affect on weight loss. It only makes sense that if your mouth is busy doing something else, it is not eating anything. However, in an article in the La Times written by Jeannine Stein called "Study: Chewing sugar-free gum has no big effect on weight loss", gum chewing actually poses no affect on weight loss. The reliability of this article is based on a research that was conducted on a group of people.
Two-hundred and one overweight or obese individuals participated in a research to prove this hypothesis. Half of them were in the experimental group, and those individuals were told to follow an eating chart and chew gum for ninety minutes a day. The experimental group was given the same eating chart, but they were given no gum to chew. At the end of a certain amount of time, both groups were evaluated, and there was no significant change in between both groups. Only a slight weight loss among both groups, probably due to the eating chart. So next time you reach out for a stick of gum because you crave something unhealthy, do yourself a favor and eat something healthy instead of chewing gum or eating something unhealthy. In the words of Mr. Wonka, "Chewing gum is really gross, chewing gum I hate the most."
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