Chewing Gum Burns Calories, Dampens Appetite

Can chewing gum be good for your health? Possibly, if the gum is sugarless. That's the suggestion of research conducted at the University of Rhode Island, where nutritionists found that people who chewed sugarless gum for one hour in the morning (three
20-minute gum-chewing sessions), consumed 67 fewer calories at
lunch and did not compensate by eating more later in the day. A university press release reports that some gum chewers also claimed to be less hungry after
chewing gum. The researchers found that when subjects chewed gum before and after eating,
they expended about 5 percent more energy than when they did not chew
gum. 

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