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Friday, January 19, 2007
The Chewing Gum Diet?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Dentists tell us that chewing sugar free gum can help fight tooth decay. If you can’t brush after a meal; chewing gum can help remove food particles from in-between your teeth. But, who knew that chewing gum could help you lose weight, too?? At only five calories, a piece of sugarfree chewing gum offers a diversion from high-calorie snacks. People who chewed gum after meals experienced a 38.7 percent reduction in incremental cavities when compared to the control group of non-chewers for a two-year period of time, as reported in the Journal of Dental Research. Do you chew gum? Does it help prevent high calorie snack attacks?
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