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So does aging!
As a quick note - people who abuse the drugs "Ecstasy" (MDMA) or Speed (methedrine, dexedrine, etc) should chew gum continuously. The reason is that these drugs dry out the mouth, suppressing flow of saliva, and chewing gum stimulates it. Our teeth need to be continuously wet and bathed in the mild calcium solution of saliva. If they aren't they fall apart. Chewing gum can prevent the crumbling of teeth and severe gum disease that abusing "uppers" causes.
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Also - chewing gum helps keep gums in shape in normal people. Flossing is more important, but gum doesn't hurt.
So does sucking on a straw - something I'm guilty of. Gee, maybe some things are inevitable.
Get ready for the sue-happy idiots to run with this one- pain & suffering from chewing gum causing wrinkles.
I became a gum addict 3 years ago and about 6 months ago I noticed wrinkles on my upper lip as if I were a smoker, which I'm not, I'm a bubble blower. Chew the gum, don't blow the bubbles.
People PLEASE!!!!!! Wrinkles are part of life get over it.!!!!!!
Oh is that why those dear sweet Darth Vadaresque nuns were always hitting us on the head with rulers while yelling and screaming, "Are you chewing gum, spit it out now!!" They didn't want us to get wrinkles.. How sweet....
How about just looking like a COW all the time? Have gum-chewers ever looked in a mirror? You people look like cows! Constantly chewing, all day long. It's not attractive. Heaven forbid you add noise - which guess what - NONE of the rest of us want to hear! Why would we - it's not a nice noise! Pop! Smack! I'm glad you are having a great time, but it's behavior I expect out of an ill-mannered adolescent, not an adult. Want fresh breath? Brush your teeth, use mouth wash, take a breath mint. You will smell fine and look like an adult. Now like a cow, and you won't drive anyone else insane. Just because we don't say anything doesn't mean we don't wish you didn't choke on it. And no, I'm not alone.
Cow are cute. You're not a former nun are you? Uh.. not always possible to brush and floss and rinse after every meal.... sometimes ya just gotta chew...
Must be a slow news day, I agree about the cows though.
Ha! I agree, MSNBC has nothing better to do than worry about Racheal Madcow's wrinkles. Anything to avoid addressing real news issues.
Dr. Joel Schlessinger is nothing but an ego driven marketing maniac who will do anything (but listen to his clients) to get his name and his brand out to the public. As a resident of Omaha for 13 years, I sought treatment from Dr. Schlessinger for a skin condition on my hand and feet. His only recommendation was a script for Accutain and refused to consider other options...
I have since sought the advise of several dermatologists who had much less drastic remedies... Sorry Dr. Schlessinger, but once again you have missed the mark... How many of those "wrinkle ridden" patients were former smokers?
I bet the same could be said of water bottles. I think that you probably get a specific pattern of wrinkles from drinking out of water bottles all the time.
LOL, no I'm not a current nor a former nun. I wish you knew how many people would laugh if they heard that one. How about just swishing with water well after eating. No one HAS to chew gum. That's marketing you've fallen for. "Cow are cute" - when they are cows...not humans. My daughter loves cows. None of us want to look like one.
you are a gum addict? did you go to rehab? i really don't think you can be a gum addict, you just like to chew gum a lot, maybe your dentist isn't too happy! Aging is a simple part of life, everyone should accept it. Just learn to look good in the skin your in! there are options other than surgery or botox...... there's creams....make-up. Don't go under the knife! It makes you look worse and more fake than you were before! Show some confidence in yourselves people! It should matter more how you look on the inside rather than the outside!
I don't know of a single smoker or tobacco chewer who hasn't suffered some kind of nasty consequence of those habits, and that's because the chemicals in tobacco are literally POISONS. Chewing that weed is poisonous by itself, but add fire and the poisons increase. Wrinkles are the least of a smoker's/chewer's worries considering the horrible diseases those habits cause.
Chewing gum. I gave that up years ago because I can't seem to chew gum without snapping it loudly. I also wonder about some of the weird chemicals used in the sugar-free varieties. Who knows what effects some or all of those sugar substitutes will have on human DNA? Sometimes it can take years to find out. After all, it took way too long for scientists to figure out that tobacco is dangerous. In the 1800s and early 1900s, cigarette ads actually claimed that nasty weed was good for asthma and other diseases. Now, in 2010, it's known that tobacco kills. Fake sweeteners are said to clean teeth and freshen breath. Maybe they do, but then again, maybe those chemicals will eventually cause other health problems. I'm not going to be anyone's guinea-pig.
There's also the fact that the faces made while chewing gum do not present people in their most attractive state...think of cows chewing cud...
The sweeteners in gum aren't "fake" sweeteners. Sorbitol, mannitol, xylitol, xylose, etcetera are all just sugar variations that occur in nature. Many fruits have them. Our own bodies create them in small quantities. If a person is diabetic, one of the major reasons why people get retinal problems is that too much sugar supplied to those cells turns up production of sorbitol by our own bodies. It's a case of a little is good, too much in the wrong place is bad.
But sorbitol in gum isn't a problem. The worst thing that happens with too much of these alcohol sugars is that bacteria in the gut go a little crazy and you get gas and too much of the wrong kind of bacteria growing - if you have too much. In a few people, that effect can cause rapid weight loss from diarrhea. But it takes a fair amount, and you can tell. If you like gum and you are having diarrhea from the huge amount of gum you are chewing each day, switch to regular gum with sugar in it, or else Aspartame.
But if you don't have diarrhea from your chewing gum, you're fine. there's nothing to worry about. No, the sorbitol in your gut does not get into your retinal cells. The sorbitol that causes a problem there over years is from high blood sugar.
Aspartame can be a problem in some people. It's enough that the FAA doesn't want pilots eating aspartame within 5 hours of flying. If you are diabetic and need to keep sugar intake low though, it's a better thing.
It's not the sweeteners that clean your teeth with gum. It's the gum itself, and the release of saliva.
Sorry, haters! Allergy medication gives me an extremely dry mouth. Chewing gum helps a lot, ESPECIALLY if I have to talk for an extended period of time. Not very professional, as I am painfully aware, but neither is sucking on my teeth, trying to unstick my lips from them -- for real. Advice to fellow sufferers: apologize to your audience or new acquaintance before you get started and explain the situation. Most people are very understanding, or at least decent enough not to embarrass you about it. And no popping, smacking, or bubbles allowed. Orbit Rulz!