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Doctors create gum that helps promote tooth health

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

With the help of a gum chomping machine and years of careful chemistry, University of Kentucky researchers have developed a chewing gum that can help replace toothpaste and a toothbrush, thus improving the health of soldiers ...


Chewing gum can reduce calorie intake, increase energy expenditure

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A nutrition professor at the University of Rhode Island studying the effects of chewing sugar-free gum on weight management has found that it can help to reduce calorie intake and increase energy expenditure.


Chewing gum associated with enhanced bowel recovery after colon surgery

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 18, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Chewing gum is associated with enhanced recovery of intestinal function following surgery to remove all or part of the colon, according to an analysis of previously published studies in the August issue of Archives of Su ...


Mexican labs target adulterers with DNA testing

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Suspect your significant other might be cheating on you? In Mexico, numerous laboratories are now offering a way to find out for sure -- DNA tests.


Taste sensation: Ads work better if all senses are involved

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Corporations spend billions of dollars each year on food advertising. For example, Kraft Foods, PepsiCo, and McDonald's each spent more than $1 billion in advertising in 2007. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research sugges ...


Chewing gum helps treat hyperphosphatemia in kidney disease patients

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chewing gum made with a phosphate-binding ingredient can help treat high phosphate levels in dialysis patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a study appearing in the March 2009 issue of the Journal of the ...