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Friends of diets and weight loss methods are always looking for options to achieve its goal as having the ideal weight.

Any trick or strategy appears to be valid and one of the most popular says that chewing sugar-free gum helps burn calories and thus lose weight. Is this really true?

Sorry to disappoint you, the answer is NO. Gum and some plants have been considered negative calorie foods, this means that the body burns more calories chewing and digesting them than those incorporated by the food itself.

However, this belief is banished as a result of studies conducted by the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, USA, in which a team of researchers told a group of people who chew gum at a rate of 100 times per minute.

After chewing gum calculate the energy consumed was equal to about 11 calories per hour, they concluded that if a person chews gum every hour of the day awake only be losing half a kilo less after a month.

Considering that the number of hours spent by a person chewing gum is actually much lower, then we conclude that chewing gum does not help you lose weight by caloric intake used in such activity.

Moreover, we consider that the gum may help some people to combat anxiety and fool the stomach, perfectly valid to avoid falling into temptation with the trinkets and foods high in energy.

If you really want to lose weight using what really works: a balanced diet without excess and an increase in physical activity beyond the jaws move, try the Mediterranean diet and join a gym to train in bodybuilding, goes also to the spinning classes and cardiovascular diseases, your body will thank you.