Why does gum make you hungry

Here is a link to a couple of the foods that make people more hungry after eating them. Ever since high school I have been wrestling. The reason for it is because it helps lose weight. Also, studies show that moving the jaw muscles helps burn calories as would moving any other muscle. After some research I found that chewing gum can burn up to 11 calories an hour on its own. This is a good, well researched post. The studies you found showed that this issue is quite complicated and does show that it requires a more complex and controlled experiment like you suggested.

It would also be interesting to find out why chewing gum seems to cause people to eat less healthily. It also makes me wonder if this issue suffers from the file drawer problem. None of the studies you found came to the conclusion that gum did not effect eating habits. This conclusion may have been too boring and thus may not have been published. This is really an interesting posting! Though I do not like to chew gums that much, but I still want to figure out the relation between chewing gums and feeling of hungry.

I remembered once I saw a study said chewing gums increase saliva, and saliva triggers subconsciousness of eating, thus create a feeling of hungry. Recently, I read another article stated chewing gums also can increase concentration. Gum is like my best friend I never go anywhere without it! I personally do believe that chewing gum with suppress hunger at least for a little while.

I think the 3 different studies that you looked at are all very interesting but i think the information from them would of been a lot more valuable if they controlled more variables and then we knew that the gum chewing was the only thing causing people to eat less.

Scientists are still chewing on the answer, but prevailing research gives some clues. Dieters sometimes shun chewing gum because they fear it will exacerbate their feelings of deprivation and emptiness. They think, or feel, the chewing gum starts the gastric juices flowing by stimulating saliva in anticipation of some real food. When the juices find nothing to digest, it makes the person feel like devouring something. Orosensory stimulation is an important contributing factor to the development of satiation.

Providing orosensory stimulation with few calories may satisfy appetite and help to suppress cravings for high energy snacks. Calcium without the dairy. Eat your way to better skin. Foods to grab during a workout.

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