Is gum a snack?

[apocalypz]

I just saw a commercial for Extra earlier and they looked like they wanted to get with the dieting consumers by saying that their gum was a 5 calorie snack.

You don't ingest gum. You chew it until the flavor is gone then you spit it out. I don't think it's a snack.

Discuss.

 

[SVNTI]

Nah, you just spit that %*@ out.

 

[fanatic15]

I wouldn't consider it a snack personally.

I've been watching the Biggest Loser and they bill it as an alternative to a snack. So you would use it instead of having a snack to curb appetite. Thatmakes more sense to me. They use Extra as well.

 

[ac4three]

Absolutely not. I guess it could be considered a snack replacement, but I hate gum regardless...

 

[i love af1]

doesn't chewing gum make you hungrier?

 

[apocalypz]

So you would use it instead of having a snack to curb appetite

Is that true? I thought the same as I love AF1 that it makes you hungrier.

 

[fanatic15]

^Well I'm going by what the personal trainers on the show said. I don't usually get hungry after eating gum personally. I know it activates the salivaglands. How that pertains to hunger. I don't know.

 

[carloss510]

No

 

[limitedretroog]

I don't even consider it food.

 

[jpzx]

I think since you don't swallow it (nh) its not a snack.

 

[mw2889]

1. Gum makes you more hungry

2. I swallow my gum, New Hampshire.

 

[mstrpln]

it's more of a "treat"

 

[paul is on tilt]

Originally Posted by Fanatic15

^Well I'm going by what the personal trainers on the show said. I don't usually get hungry after eating gum personally. I know it activates the saliva glands. How that pertains to hunger. I don't know.

It activates your salivary glands. Your body is then expecting food. So your stomach gets all the acids and whatnot ready for the "incomingfood". At least, that's what I heard.

 

[p0tat0 5alad]

i don't consider it a snack.

 

[tubbbbbby]

It activates your salivary glands. Your body is then expecting food. So your stomach gets all the acids and whatnot ready for the "incoming food". At least, that's what I heard.
bingo.

 

[fanatic15]

Originally Posted by Paul Is On Tilt

Originally Posted by Fanatic15

^Well I'm going by what the personal trainers on the show said. I don't usually get hungry after eating gum personally. I know it activates the saliva glands. How that pertains to hunger. I don't know.

It activates your salivary glands. Your body is then expecting food. So your stomach gets all the acids and whatnot ready for the "incoming food". At least, that's what I heard.

That doesn't mean you are actually "hungry" (i.e. need fuel for the body). It may produce a craving, but cravings =/= actual hunger. If youjust ate an hour ago and then chew some gum, you aren't all of a sudden going to need to eat again.

 

[paul is on tilt]

Originally Posted by Fanatic15

Originally Posted by Paul Is On Tilt

Originally Posted by Fanatic15

^Well I'm going by what the personal trainers on the show said. I don't usually get hungry after eating gum personally. I know it activates the saliva glands. How that pertains to hunger. I don't know.

It activates your salivary glands. Your body is then expecting food. So your stomach gets all the acids and whatnot ready for the "incoming food". At least, that's what I heard.

That doesn't mean you are actually "hungry" (i.e. need fuel for the body). It may produce a craving, but cravings =/= actual hunger. If you just ate an hour ago and then chew some gum, you aren't all of a sudden going to need to eat again.

Then I'm stumped. I said that it was what I heard so looks like what I heard was wrong

.

 

[fanatic15]

^ At any rate, I think we can agree that gum is definitely not a snack

 

[la213espg]

I wouldn't say so

 

[kash55]

No!

 

[oh you mad]

Is it true that you score higher on exams when chewing gum???

 

[dom90]

i don't consider it a snack

 

[650]

^ I dunno, but I know I play better basketball when I chew gum

 

[gg0tti]

Well if you want to call it a snack. Then its a snack that makes me hungry a majority of the time.