Article: REASONS TO STICK WITH CHEWING GUM.(Life and Arts)

Byline: BOB CONDORCOLUMNIST

WHETHER YOUR school years were high tech or no tech, the issue of chewing gum during class has been constant - as in kids want to sneak it and teachers look to prevent it. There are some good reasons for a gum ban during the school day. The list starts with - yuck - gum under desks and includes gum-snapping and bubbles that distract rows or tables of kids. Gum in the hair? Enough said.

Yet new Australian research, funded in large part by gum brands Wrigley and Cadbury, makes a case for gum-chewing on both physiological and mental levels. Andrew Scholey, a professor of behavioral and brain sciences at Swinburne University ...

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