A chewing gum laced with a plant-grown protein serves as a "trap" for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, reducing viral load in saliva and potentially tamping down transmission, according to a new study.
Dec 3, 2021
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Nearly 15 percent of all chewing gum varieties sold promise to provide health-enhancing supplements to users, so Penn State researchers studied whether two vitamin-supplemented products were effective at delivering vitamins ...
Oct 10, 2018
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Taking slower and fewer bites of a spoonful of rice releases less glucose into the bloodstream than quick and continuous chewing, show A*STAR researchers. Surges in blood sugar levels, known as the glycemic response, can ...
Jun 29, 2016
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Government health officials will team up with minor league baseball as part of a new $36 million campaign to discourage rural teenagers from using chewing tobacco.
Apr 19, 2016
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Caffeine and blue-green light have significant effects on improving the driving performance of chronically sleep deprived young people, an innovative QUT study has found.
Mar 29, 2016
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The benefits of eating slowly and chewing thoroughly have been proposed for over a century, but there has been little actual proof of the theory. Now, Naoyuki Hayashi and Yuka Hamada at Tokyo Institute of Technology have ...
May 26, 2015
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Teens no longer smoke just cigarettes. They have branched out to using alternative tobacco products such as electronic cigarettes, hookahs and little cigars. In fact, e-cigarette use is rising rapidly among both cigarette ...
Apr 26, 2015
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Can't get that song out of your head? Chewing gum could turn off annoying 'earworms' according to new research from the University of Reading.
Apr 23, 2015
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Military culture perpetuates the notion that using tobacco provides stress relief, a new study in the American Journal of Health Promotion finds. But other stress relievers, such as exercise or taking meditation breaks, could ...
Dec 5, 2014
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(HealthDay)—It's safe to chew gum while fasting before surgery, researchers report.
Oct 12, 2014
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