Chewing on Gum

Ok I know this isn't the best thing to do but I have a HUGE bowl of candy sitting on my desk for all the staff members and I have a bag of fudge in my bag which I was given earlier, I have had a few pieces of each (allocated in my daily calories). Now I want more so I figure chewing gum is better than eating more, right? :)

Remember your jawbone was not designed to chew gum..  Try eating something healther like celery and peanut butter or flavoured rice cakes.  but if it keeps you out of the sweet jar by all means chew gum

why can't our jawbones safely chew gum?

Read the following taken from http://drbenkim.com/articles-gum.html

 

"If you chew gum on a regular basis, please consider the following:

 

1. Chewing gum causes unnecessary wear and tear of the cartilage that acts as a shock absorber in your jaw joints. Once damaged, this area can create pain and discomfort for a lifetime.

 

2. You use eight different facial muscles to chew. Unnecessary chewing can create chronic tightness in two of these muscles, located close to your temples. This can put pressure on the nerves that supply this area of your head, contributing to chronic, intermittent headaches.

 

3. You have six salivary glands located throughout your mouth that are stimulated to produce and release saliva whenever you chew. Producing a steady stream of saliva for chewing gum is a waste of energy and resources that could otherwise be used for essential metabolic activities.

 

4. Most chewing gum is sweetened with aspartame. Short and long term use of aspartame has been closely linked with cancer, diabetes, neurological disorders, and birth defects.

 

5. If your gum isn't sweetened by aspartame, it is probably sweetened by sugar. Sugar is most likely the single greatest dietary cause of chronic health problems like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and emotional disorders.

 

The next time you think about chewing gum, please remember the price that your body pays for it."

As long as your chewing gum sparingly I wouldn't worry about it.  All of these types of studies are when they give lab rats ridonkulously large doses. 

If you're chewing a piece of gum once in a while, don't fret about it.

About chewing gum being bad for the gums... it sounds a bit silly. Other physicians have actually concluded chewing being good, expecially for older people, their teeth get stronger. I've even seen ads for a piece of hard gum, non-flavored that is.

Sugar and artificial sweeteners might not be good, I don't eat gum or other candy with sugar, but I chew a couple of artificially sweetened pieces of gum a day. I think artificial sweeteners are bad too, but everybody need to be a little naughty, right? :-)

Yeah, gum is good and all, but definitely don't overdo it.

I have a sprained TMJ from a car accident three years ago.  Everything was healing nicely until about three weeks ago when I started obsessivly chewing gum again because of stress.

I am in SO MUCH AGONY right now that I can't sleep at night.  Learn from my pain! ;) Try popping a sweet mint instead?  Altoids has a new flavor out, honey or something along those lines. 

Chewing gum is fine for you...in fact, it's good for your teeth to chew sugarless gum after you eat (my husband is a dentist). The only thing to be careful on with sugarless gum is that it can cause you to be somewhat gassy depending on how many DIFFERENT pieces you chew because of the artificial sweeteners in sugarless gum. Trident has xylitol, not aspartame...just fyi!

Original Post by jdunckel:

Read the following taken from http://drbenkim.com/articles-gum.html

 

"If you chew gum on a regular basis, please consider the following:

 

1. Chewing gum causes unnecessary wear and tear of the cartilage that acts as a shock absorber in your jaw joints. Once damaged, this area can create pain and discomfort for a lifetime.

 

2. You use eight different facial muscles to chew. Unnecessary chewing can create chronic tightness in two of these muscles, located close to your temples. This can put pressure on the nerves that supply this area of your head, contributing to chronic, intermittent headaches.

 

3. You have six salivary glands located throughout your mouth that are stimulated to produce and release saliva whenever you chew. Producing a steady stream of saliva for chewing gum is a waste of energy and resources that could otherwise be used for essential metabolic activities.

 

4. Most chewing gum is sweetened with aspartame. Short and long term use of aspartame has been closely linked with cancer, diabetes, neurological disorders, and birth defects.

 

5. If your gum isn't sweetened by aspartame, it is probably sweetened by sugar. Sugar is most likely the single greatest dietary cause of chronic health problems like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and emotional disorders.

 

The next time you think about chewing gum, please remember the price that your body pays for it."

What a bunch of rubbish.

Original Post by trhawley:

Original Post by jdunckel:

Read the following taken from http://drbenkim.com/articles-gum.html

 

"If you chew gum on a regular basis, please consider the following:

 

1. Chewing gum causes unnecessary wear and tear of the cartilage that acts as a shock absorber in your jaw joints. Once damaged, this area can create pain and discomfort for a lifetime.

 

2. You use eight different facial muscles to chew. Unnecessary chewing can create chronic tightness in two of these muscles, located close to your temples. This can put pressure on the nerves that supply this area of your head, contributing to chronic, intermittent headaches.

 

3. You have six salivary glands located throughout your mouth that are stimulated to produce and release saliva whenever you chew. Producing a steady stream of saliva for chewing gum is a waste of energy and resources that could otherwise be used for essential metabolic activities.

 

4. Most chewing gum is sweetened with aspartame. Short and long term use of aspartame has been closely linked with cancer, diabetes, neurological disorders, and birth defects.

 

5. If your gum isn't sweetened by aspartame, it is probably sweetened by sugar. Sugar is most likely the single greatest dietary cause of chronic health problems like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and emotional disorders.

 

The next time you think about chewing gum, please remember the price that your body pays for it."

What a bunch of rubbish.

Agreed!