2007-02-25 07:23:21 · 10 answers · asked by I ♥ U 3 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Because when you chew your stomach takes it as a signal that food is on it's way down. But since gum never makes it down well it leaves your stomach waiting causing you to get hungry!
2007-02-25 07:26:48 · answer #1 · answered by Mandie 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Gum chewing may stimulate the digestive system, spurring it back into action after surgery, the researchers note.
Eating food and drinking water might do the same thing. But patients often can't tolerate eating and drinking soon after colon surgery, Schuster's team notes.
The patients they studied had no problem chewing gum as directed.
"It is also possible that alternatives to chewing sugarless gum could be more effective," the researchers write. "For example, might gum containing sugar, different flavors, or different textures be even more efficacious?"
Meanwhile, Schuster and colleagues call gum chewing an "inexpensive and helpful" addition to postoperative care for such patients.
2007-02-25 15:27:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
chewing activates certain areas in your brain to signal the release of more saliva and other digestive enzymes in your gut in preparation for the food that it thinks is coming. the hunger is manifested by pains, rumblings, etc., which are physical signals that your body is sending you to feed it.
i don't chew gum anymore because it makes me feel too hungry as well.. can't focus on stuff. =(
2007-02-25 16:29:15 · answer #3 · answered by M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because your brain gets confused by the chewing motion, and thinks your actually eating food and if you don't swallow anything your stomach is left waiting for some grub!
This is something anoxeric people make great use of, to trick their mind into thinking they'll be eating something soon.
2007-02-25 15:28:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Chewing is the first step of the digestive process.
2007-02-25 15:29:02 · answer #5 · answered by Gustav 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because the taste activates your brain into thinking that your stomach is going to get food, then when it doesn't - you become hungry.
2007-02-25 15:27:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Gum sucks energy from your lifesource...it was created by the government to weaken the peoples minds...oh no...the men in black are after me!
2007-02-25 15:52:28 · answer #7 · answered by dogos78 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because the motion of chewing reminds your body (unconsiously) that it should be swallowing something other than spit.
2007-02-25 15:26:29 · answer #8 · answered by Cerantine 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yopu make your stomach think that it is going to get food but sience you are just swallowing your spit your stomach sends you the message that it wants to get the food
2007-02-25 15:49:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sugar, it stimulates your hunger.
2007-02-25 15:42:24 · answer #10 · answered by Diane T 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋