A chewing gum, soft and cohesive substance everyone’s familiar with, is celebrating its 166th anniversary today. With thousands of flavors available, children and adults can choose whatever their hearts delight: peppermint, cinnamon, banana, or even Coca-Cola.
A chewing gum, soft and cohesive substance everyone’s familiar with, is celebrating its 166th anniversary today. With thousands of flavors available, children and adults can choose whatever their hearts delight: peppermint, cinnamon, banana, or even Coca-Cola.
Above: John B. Curtis, an American businessman was a first man to introduce and sell the very first commercial chewing gum, called the State of Maine Spruce Gum.
Above: John B. Curtis, an American businessman was a first man to introduce and sell the very first commercial chewing gum, called the State of Maine Spruce Gum.
Studies have also shown that chewing a gum after a colon surgery can help patients to recover faster. Chewing a gum for at least fifteen minutes four times per day causes increase of saliva production, which in turn speeds up patients’ recovery process by a day and a half faster, reports Science Daily.
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However, there have been instances when swallowed gum resulted in medical complications. A four-year old boy once needed a medical operation after regularly swallowing five to seven pieces of chewing gum every day. Eventually a solid chewing gum mass formed which could not be expelled, causing constipation.
