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Chewing gum health and well -
The author / Jiang Hanzhong
If you want to suppress your appetite, improve their memory, you can go to exercise, eat healthy food, you can also feel sleep point. These practices are good, but beyond that, you can also chew a sugar-free gum.U.S. CNN site reported that chewing gum should not be prohibited in schools thing. United States Baylor College of Medicine researchers in Houston, Texas, 108 eighth-grade students conducted a survey of mathematics learning. The researchers will be divided into two groups of students, tracking the 14 weeks. A group of students do their homework and exams, when chewing gum while the other group did not chew gum. The results surprising. Students chewing gum in the standard math test scores than those who do not chew gum than 3 percent of students. Chewing gum final score of students than students who did not chew gum good.
Nutrition Department of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine Lecturer, Craig Johnston, Ph.D. led the study. He said: "Chewing gum is the potential for students to learn to play simple tools." He reported that the teachers were also occasionally found that students who chewed gum break less attention is more focused, quiet longer.
Of chewing gum in generating satisfaction to curb the desire for certain foods more and more aspects of the results of these studies the role of chewing gum have added new evidence for this. Louisiana State University researchers in 115 people who regularly chewed gum were investigated. Researchers to these subjects to provide lunch, lunch before and after the measurement of the extent of their desire for food. The results showed that after lunch hour chewing gum three times a person to eat less high-calorie snacks. Chewing gum were also reported that their hunger with the desire for sweet foods are weakened.
Led the study of physiological psychologist Paula Gai Sohrman Ph.D., said: "In general, we have fast-food intake reduced the 40-60 calories. Mouth munching things can inhibit our appetite. "So chewing gum will be the next fashion phenomenon? Nutritionists and doctors are studying how chewing gum helps to health.
However, the New York University nutritionist Maliangnai Schuster, Ph.D., said such studies is to sell chewing gum. But Nesztl acknowledged that there might be a little chewing gum, since chewing gum is not the heat, "If the right people to eat things that help, that would be good."
Another American Dental Association said on its website: "20 minutes after a meal chewing gum will help to prevent tooth decay. Chew the physiological behavior of the saliva produced in the mouth will be washed off the surrounding gum acidic substances and bacteria, thereby protecting the teeth. "In addition to prevention of tooth decay, the independent study found that chewing gum also help to reduce the symptoms of acid reflux disease. Saliva flow will be produced in the stomach acid effect.
Earlier, there is evidence that chewing gum will increase cerebral blood flow 25%, but no one can explain the increased blood flow will have any effect on cognition. As for the food, the U.S. Mayo Clinical Medical Center, a study says that people on the jaw by chewing movements per hour to burn 11 calories.
U.S. Ohio Cleveland Clinic Head and Neck Medical College, director of research, Dr. Michael Benninger, said: "In general, chewing gum with little drawback." Benninger said chewing gum is different from smoking, side effects minimal. "However, some people may be should not be chewing gum, such as the jaw joint and muscle disorders and chronic tension headache patients, and then there is the night-time bite the people who are not suitable for chewing gum."
April 24, 2009
