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Article: License to chew: you call it bubble gum. Some say it's food for thought!(Your Personal Health)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
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- December 1, 2004
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Chew on this: Gum may actually help kids do better in school! According to researchers in England, gum chewing can improve memory.
Does that mean you can chew your way to an "A"?
Smackdown!
In a study at the University of Northumbria, psychologists asked three groups of volunteers to memorize lists of words, pictures, and telephone numbers. While studying the lists, people in one group chewed gum, people in another did not, and members of the third group pretended to chew gum. The 75 volunteers were then tested to see how much information they could recall. The researchers found that the gum chewers remembered 35 percent more than volunteers in ...