Archive for the ‘gum research’ Category

Prevent (or Zapp™) your cavities

Monday, July 28th, 2008

The current news these days is about Xylitol (it’s all about birch trees and corn cobs, at least some of the time) in gummy bears as a way to reduce the risk of cavities, but if you’re not into gummy bears, you can do it with sugarless gum made by a company called Zapp.

Gum does make you smarter

Friday, July 25th, 2008

 

Well, as I’ve sometimes argued, gum does make you smarter, it seems. Or so says this research reported on in the kid’s version of BBC:

Chewing gum makes you brainy.