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Chewing Sugarless Gum, Could It Be the Newest Diet Trend?
When you have your next sweet craving, you may want to try chewing on a stick of sugar free gum. It could not only suppress your craving, but may even boost your energy.
Chewing gum has been proven to curb sweet cravings while energizing gum chewers and increasing their alertness into the afternoon or evening.
If you have a snack or sweet craving, reach for the gum, it could not only increase your energy, but also curb the cravings. Gum chewers who snack randomly through the day, reportedly snacked less when they chewed gum according to a new study. The study funded by Wrigley Science Institute, part of Wrigley’s chewing gum company, conducted to determine if gum chewing could curb sweet cravings was released on April 19th at the Experimental Biology 2009 conference.
During their study, researchers evaluated 115 men and women, 66 percent of them women, ranging in age from 18-54 who were regular gum chewers. The study participants visited the lab on two separate days, where they were asked to complete two different daily processes. Both days they were fed sandwiches for lunch and then kept in the lab for three hours following lunch. On one day, the participants were asked to chew sugar free gum for 15 minutes every hour, over the three-hour period, and on the other they didn’t chew gum. Three hours following lunch, on both days, the participants were offered a variety of snacks, some high in carbohydrates, others high in sugar, and they were either low or high fat. They were allowed as much as they wanted. The participants were asked to complete questionnaires in regards to their cravings, hunger and energy levels on each day.
The study showed that chewing gum seemed to curb participants sweet and snack cravings while also helping to maintain energy through the entire day and reducing drowsiness after their lunch and before their afternoon snacks. Participants reported fewer cravings for sweets each time they were polled on the gum chewing day, but the opposite occurred on the day they didn’t chew gum. Participants snacked on 45 fewer snack calories and 60 fewer sweet calories on the day they chewed gum, compared to the day they went gum free. Paula J. Geiselman, lead researcher of the study and chief of woman’s health and eating behavior at Pennington Biomedical Research Center and Louisiana State University said, “This research supports the role of chewing gum as an easy, practical tool for managing snack, especially sweet snack, intake and cravings.”
Is chewing gum the newest diet strategy? Maybe, the new study supports the theory that chewing gum can curb sweet cravings and snack cravings while boosting energy levels. However, chewing sugar free gum does have some side effects. Previous research that examined patients MRI’s showed chewing gum actually increased blood flow to the brain which could be the reason participants experienced increased energy levels. Wrigley’s is currently sponsoring several other projects to look into potential benefits to chewing gum and the links, but for now you may want to reach for that stick of sugar free gum rather than the Twinkie or bag of chips. Just a few less calories a day can result in weight loss.
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When you have your next sweet craving, you may want to try chewing on a stick of sugar free gum. It could not only suppress your craving, but may even boost your energy.
Chewing gum has been proven to curb sweet cravings while energizing gum chewers and increasing their alertness into the afternoon or evening.
If you have a snack or sweet craving, reach for the gum, it could not only increase your energy, but also curb the cravings. Gum chewers who snack randomly through the day, reportedly snacked less when they chewed gum according to a new study. The study funded by Wrigley Science Institute, part of Wrigley’s chewing gum company, conducted to determine if gum chewing could curb sweet cravings was released on April 19th at the Experimental Biology 2009 conference.
During their study, researchers evaluated 115 men and women, 66 percent of them women, ranging in age from 18-54 who were regular gum chewers. The study participants visited the lab on two separate days, where they were asked to complete two different daily processes. Both days they were fed sandwiches for lunch and then kept in the lab for three hours following lunch. On one day, the participants were asked to chew sugar free gum for 15 minutes every hour, over the three-hour period, and on the other they didn’t chew gum. Three hours following lunch, on both days, the participants were offered a variety of snacks, some high in carbohydrates, others high in sugar, and they were either low or high fat. They were allowed as much as they wanted. The participants were asked to complete questionnaires in regards to their cravings, hunger and energy levels on each day.
The study showed that chewing gum seemed to curb participants sweet and snack cravings while also helping to maintain energy through the entire day and reducing drowsiness after their lunch and before their afternoon snacks. Participants reported fewer cravings for sweets each time they were polled on the gum chewing day, but the opposite occurred on the day they didn’t chew gum. Participants snacked on 45 fewer snack calories and 60 fewer sweet calories on the day they chewed gum, compared to the day they went gum free. Paula J. Geiselman, lead researcher of the study and chief of woman’s health and eating behavior at Pennington Biomedical Research Center and Louisiana State University said, “This research supports the role of chewing gum as an easy, practical tool for managing snack, especially sweet snack, intake and cravings.”
Is chewing gum the newest diet strategy? Maybe, the new study supports the theory that chewing gum can curb sweet cravings and snack cravings while boosting energy levels. However, chewing sugar free gum does have some side effects. Previous research that examined patients MRI’s showed chewing gum actually increased blood flow to the brain which could be the reason participants experienced increased energy levels. Wrigley’s is currently sponsoring several other projects to look into potential benefits to chewing gum and the links, but for now you may want to reach for that stick of sugar free gum rather than the Twinkie or bag of chips. Just a few less calories a day can result in weight loss.
----Agencies--