Comments on: How Chewing Gum Help in Weight Control?

By: Brandi

Brandi — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:52:41 +0000

If you take a look at the digestion process you will figure out that chewing gum can help aid in weight loss. To some extend. First when you take a bit of food, or gum in this case, you produce saliva, this saliva contains enzymes that break up protiens and sugars, once you swallow your saliva it reaches your stomach, intestines and so on where vitamins sugars and such get absorbed. So the more saliva that contains food breaking enzymes will be produced more often and therefore goes through the body at a faster rate. On the flip side due to this affect your body will in return be more hungry more often since your digestion is sped up. But how you deal with that will result in the weight loss, we have always been told to eat three meals a day, well in all reality we are suppose to have five or more small meals a day which can boost matabolism, and since chewing gum can sped up the process of digestion a bit, maybe that would give more people a reason to eat five or more small meals a day. So overall when you look at it, yes it does help in weight loss, but chewing gum along is not going to help anything. The only true weight loss cure is healthy foods and exercise.

By: asredas

asredas — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:49:06 +0000

Chewing gum results in more saliva (which is a very good natural way of cleaning your teeth).

Saliva also aids the food digestion process and hence increases the rate at which food is digested, and will result in you becoming hungrier faster.

Unless you are the sort of person who is happy just chewing gum and nothing else (even when hungry) then by all means chew gum, otherwise, eat a fruit or veg!

By: SuperHotPinkNailz

SuperHotPinkNailz — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:33:45 +0000

Honestly, I believe this is true. Only because even before this research had been had been done, GUM chewing helped me out a lot. For example, I am a type 1 diabetic. When I was pregnant with my 2 children I had MAJOR cravings and with my super strict diet I was unable to stuff my face with whatever I wanted to. So instead, I chewed gum to pass my times of craving… And honestly.. It worked. I also found that chewing gum when I was in school helped me concentrate more. Ask me how? heck if I know.. I just always found that I the chewing helps me to focus.. LOL!!! But yes, believe me.. It works!

By: Darcy

Darcy — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:08:29 +0000

I practically lived on gum when I had to drop 15 pounds for crew in a fairly short period of time. It can make you feel hungry or “snacky” by causing you to salivate, but if you were already hungry to begin with its not such a bad side effect. I’m one for the fruity gums, tastes like I indulged in candy without the calories.

For the people who get gassy, there could be two reasons. One, sugar alcohols in sugarless gum can cause a laxative effect as well as gas if you have enough of it or are more sensitive than most. Also, most people swallow some air whenever they eat food just from the act of swallowing. If you are swallowing a lot of saliva while chewing, its possible you are swallowing some air as well.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:12:56 +0000

Assuming a 95% level of confidence, a sample size of 50 people will leave you with a 14% margin of error. Not really all that bad if you ask me.

By: Hayley, 12

Hayley, 12 — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:48:58 +0000

I chew it rather than eating (with paracetamol for the hunger pains) when i can. not just snacks, but it substitues for whole meals sometimes. it works.

By: tonie

tonie — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:06:42 +0000

To add even more health benefits chew gum with cinnamon flavor, helps to control blood sugar levels.

By: anomie101

anomie101 — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:56:49 +0000

chewing gum is the most disgusting thing. so no, no matter how much benefits it can bring to losing weight, i wouldnt sell my soul for it. period.