Chewing gum too much good or bad ?!


Question: Chewing gum too much good or bad ?
I have a bad habit of chewing gum.I use 5 or 6 chewing gums a day .Is it gonna give me some kind of disease ?.....today i watched a movie about smoking and tobacco, i saw a guy chewing something which gives him mouth cancer ....Does chewing gum give me mouth cancer too ?....An the type of Gum i using is Extra Fruit Sensations

Answers:

Anything 'too much' is bad. Heres an article i found on it:

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. f 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.

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It will strengthen your jaw muscles substantially, but it can also give you jaw problems such as a cross-bite or something called TMJ (a chronic inflammation of the upper jaw muscles).

Over all, it's bad, but it won't give you cancer. There's all sorts of nasty chemicals (like tar and rat poison, no joke) in chewing tobacco. That's why he got cancer.



You won't get a disease, but you can eventually do a little damage to your jaws if you don't give them a break.



Don't eat it to much because it will hurt you jaw and maybe it will become unlined it. You teeth would hurt too. But no disease unless you eat some kind of weird gum....lol:)



It'll give you wind, that's about it.



it will mess up your jaw structure so dont do it to much



=\ I don't think so. I have the same habbit ;)




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