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• CHEWING GUM.
• In Singapore, you can get a $1,000 fine for chewing gum in public. This is not because they have anything against gum chewing, per se, but derives from a concern for all the nasty wads that chewers leave on sidewalks and park benches in a city that goes all out to protect its cleanliness. ...
•     What is the deal with the exploding popularity of chewing gum in this country among adults? It used to be that you rarely saw an adult chew gum unless he was quitting smoking. ...
•     Why is this? Sure, chewing gum normally has a pleasant flavor -- but so does a roll of Peppermint LifeSavers. Furthermore, why is it that all semblance of intelligence seems to vacate an individual who has a wad of chewing gum in his mouth? Look into a chewer's eyes sometime and see what I mean. ...
• Why is it that 99 out of 100 gum chewers can't chew it with their mouth closed or without emitting all make and manner of annoying cracking, popping, chomping, shlurping or shlomping noises? If people sat down to dinner and did the same thing while chewing their food, they would be considered little short of barbarians. I can actually recognize when certain unseen people are in a room by the sound of their gum chewing. Go for a drive of any length with a car full of noisy gum chewers and it's likely to drive you batty by the time you get where you were going.
•     But, why the big increase in chewing in the first place? A lot of gum chewers have never smoked, so that can't account for it all. I suspect that gum chewing has a calming effect on people who are experiencing stress. ... While I haven't seen any scientific studies on the issue, I suspect that there's a correllation between the rise in stress and the rise in popularity of gum chewing. Certainly, few of the really laid-back people I know are gum chewers. ...
• Wrigley, but chewing gum really oughta be like drugs -- "Just Say No".

• Singapore Reinforces Ban on Chewing Gum Imports.
• SINGAPORE (AP) - Concerned that its 1992 ban on chewing gum might be subverted by citizens ordering from foreign mail order catalogs, the government stressed that ordering gum is punishable by up to a year in jail. ...
• The article said chewing gum could not be imported .
• "The importation into Singapore of any chewing gum is prohibited," wrote Ms. ...
• People convicted of trying to import gum face a year in jail and fines of up to $6,173. However, mere possession of gum is not an offense, and tourists are allowed to bring in a few sticks. ...
• Singapore imposed the ban in 1992 to keep its subway running on time after spent wads of gum, disposed of on train doors, prevented them from closing and disrupted service. ...

• The Story of Gum.
• Who was the first person to chew gum? Where was chewing gum invented? No one can be absolutely certain who the first gum chewers were, but historians tell us that civilizations around the world were chewing natural gum thousands of years ago. Before the invention of the electric light bulb, the telephone or even soda pop, people discovered the pleasure and benefits of chewing gum.
• Natural Gum is Discovered.
• This natural gum comes from the latex of the Sapodilla tree and later became the main ingredient in chewing gum.
• The American Indians discovered another natural form of gum-like resin by cutting the bark of spruce trees. They introduced the custom of chewing spruce gum to the early North American settlers. These savvy New Englanders created the first commercial chewing gum by selling and trading lumps of spruce. Spruce gum continued to be sold in 19th century America until the 1850s when paraffin wax became the new popular base for chewing gum.
• Chewing Gum Evolves.
• Modern chewing gum products appeared in 1869. ... Adams was unsuccessful in developing rubber, but he did succeed in producing the first modern chewing gum. ...
• Gum made with chicle and similar latexes soon became more popular than spruce gum or paraffin gum. Chicle-base chewing gum was smoother, softer and held its flavor better than any previous type of chewing gum. By the 1900s chewing gum was manufactured in many different shapes and sizes (long pencil-shaped sticks, ball form, flat sticks and blocks) and flavors (peppermint, fruit and spearmint).
• Bubble gum was invented in 1928 by Walter Diemer, a cost analyst for the Fleer Company. Many people had tried for years to develop a gum that could be blown into bubbles, but it was Mr. Diemer, a young man who knew nothing about chemistry, who found the right combination of ingredients and created a gum that was strong enough and elastic enough to stretch when filled with air.

• Gum with xylitol ‘dramatically reduces new cavities’ .
• Chewing gum with xylitol—a natural, “sugarless” sweetener—not only dramatically reduces new cavities—it helps to reverse the process of decay in already active cavities, according to a U-M study of more than 1,200 children. ...
• The gum must be chewed for at least five minutes, three to five times a day, to be effective. ...
• “When bacteria in the mouth metabolize sucrose, the standard gum and candy sweetener, they break it down eventually into acid compounds that create cavities in most individuals,” Makinen said. ...
• “Also, regular chewing with xylitol gum stimulates the production of saliva—nature’s own mouthwash, which also reduces cavities. ...
• The children, who were 9–11 years of age, attended 19 public schools in Belize City where their teachers supervised the use of the gum three to five times a day. ...
• One group of children received no gum through the program. ...
• Before the gum program began, dentists examined the children and counted the cavities on each surface of each tooth, as well as the missing and filled teeth, creating a DMFT (decayed/missing/filled teeth) score for each child. ...
• “Before the children began chewing the gum, the mean DMFT score was about 5. ... At the 28-month exam, however, the mean score in the group of children who had chewed gum sweetened exclusively with xylitol dropped to about 4. ...
• Children who chewed the sorbitol gum had a mean DMFT score of 6. 5 at the 28-month exam while the children who chewed sucrose gum had a mean score of about 8. ... The children who chewed no gum as part of the program had a score of about 7. ...
• Some American gum manufacturers also use small amounts of xylitol in some chewing gums, but the smaller amounts have not been tested yet in long-term clinical trials. ...

• Sweet Gum Tree (Liquidambar styraciflua).
• The sweet gum tree can easily be recognized by its leaves (up to seven inches across) which have either five or seven, pointed lobes with fine-toothed edges. ...
• Found in the southern states (south of Connecticut on the coast), the tree's gum, which was scraped off after removing the bark, was used earlier in chewing gum and medicines. ...

• Eurobase International NV is the world's largest independent gumbase producer, offering the full range of bubble and chewing gum bases for both confectionery and pharmaceutical applications. ...

• CHEWING GUM.
• In Singapore, you can get a $1,000 fine for chewing gum in public. This is not because they have anything against gum chewing, per se, but derives from a concern for all the nasty wads that chewers leave on sidewalks and park benches in a city that goes all out to protect its cleanliness. ...
•     What is the deal with the exploding popularity of chewing gum in this country among adults? It used to be that you rarely saw an adult chew gum unless he was quitting smoking. ...
•     Why is this? Sure, chewing gum normally has a pleasant flavor -- but so does a roll of Peppermint LifeSavers. Furthermore, why is it that all semblance of intelligence seems to vacate an individual who has a wad of chewing gum in his mouth? Look into a chewer's eyes sometime and see what I mean. ...
• Why is it that 99 out of 100 gum chewers can't chew it with their mouth closed or without emitting all make and manner of annoying cracking, popping, chomping, shlurping or shlomping noises? If people sat down to dinner and did the same thing while chewing their food, they would be considered little short of barbarians. I can actually recognize when certain unseen people are in a room by the sound of their gum chewing. Go for a drive of any length with a car full of noisy gum chewers and it's likely to drive you batty by the time you get where you were going.
•     But, why the big increase in chewing in the first place? A lot of gum chewers have never smoked, so that can't account for it all. I suspect that gum chewing has a calming effect on people who are experiencing stress. ... While I haven't seen any scientific studies on the issue, I suspect that there's a correlation between the rise in stress and the rise in popularity of gum chewing. Certainly, few of the really laid-back people I know are gum chewers. ...
• Wrigley, but chewing gum really oughta be like drugs -- "Just Say No".

• of Conservation ****:CHEWING GUM Since ancient times, in many lands, people have found relaxation and  comfort in the simple act of chewing some gummy substance. ... For example, at football,  basketball and baseball games you will see some of the athletes and  many spectators methodically chewing on wads of gum. ... For those reasons, and  because it also relieves thirst, chewing gum was included in the combat  rations of our armed forces. Here in the Middle West, many years ago when we were boys, chewing  gum was not sold in stores as it is now. ... New England colonists learned from the Indians to chew the gum-like  resin from spruce trees. In the early 1800's, lumps of spruce gum were  sold by stores in eastern states but chewing gum made of paraffin wax,  with a pleasant flavoring added, gradually took its place. ... It was discovered to have a springy, chewy quality lacking in  paraffin wax, held flavors better, and became the basic ingredient in  chewing gum. ... Company of Chicago, the largest manufacturer of  chewing gum, blends chicle with the latexes from other tropical plants  Jelutong, a tree in Borneo and Indonesia; leche caspi, a vine in the  Amazon Valley; and, also in Brazil, the couma tree. A stick of chewing gum has five main kinds of ingredients: the gum  base from latexes, powdered sugar, corn syrup, softeners, and flavoring. ... There are now 115 chewing gum companies located in 30 countries --  41 of them in the United States. ...

• Avoid Gum Surgery.
• Kill the Deep Gum Disease Bacteria and Save Your Teeth!.
• of gum disease.
• The VitaPick can help fight gum disease because it applies an antiseptic that kills the harmful deep pocket bacteria. ...
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• Locoweeds For Natural Gum And Herbs.
• Gum Tragacanth and Astragalus Root.
• Gum Tragacanth.
• microcephalus, contain a gummy, mucilaginous sap that is the source of gum tragacanth. The name "tragacanth" comes from the appearance of the exuded gum, which tends to form ribbons similar in appearance to a goat horn (from the Greek "tragos" meaning goat and "akantha" meaning horn). ... It is a water-soluble carbohydrate gum containing the polysaccharides tragacanthin and bassorin. The primary source of gum tragacanth is the desert highlands of northern and western Iran, particularly the Zagros Mountains region. In Iran, the gum is harvested seasonally by making an incision on the upper part of the taproot and collecting the exuding gum. The ribbons of gum are brought to trade centers for processing and exportation.
• Right: Gum tragacanth, an Iranian locoweed (Astragalus), showing the rigid, sharp-pointed leaf rachises after the leaflets have dropped off. The natural polysaccharide thickening agent called gum tragacanth is obtained from the sap of this plant. ...
• Gum tragacanth has many industrial uses, including cloth finishing, calico printing and waterproofing of fabrics. ... Gum tragacanth is used in many everyday commercial products, from cosmetics and toothpaste to jellies and salad dressings. ... Unfortunately, due to the troubled diplomatic relationship between the United States and Iran, other natural gums (such as guar gum and locust bean gum) have largely replaced the use of gum tragacanth in the United States.
• An Iranian gum tragacanth showing the spiny shrub (left), a ribbon of gum exuding from the exposed upper taproot (center), and powdered gum tragacanth (right). ...
• "Gum Tragacanth in Iran. ...

• STUPID GUM TRICKS! .
• Gum is cool! .
• I seldom touch the stuff myself nowadays, but we all know that chewing gum is among the most laughter-inducing substances ever invented. There is so much mischief you can do with a gooey wad of gum that the mind boggles in a horizontal direction. ...
• This page is designed for my most comical, wacky, and sometimes downright tragic stories that involve gum. ...
• The kind of bubble gum that we're accustomed to was invented by Walter Diemer in Lancaster, Pa. ... But back in 1869, William Semple, a dentist from Mount Vernon, Ohio, obtained a patent for what he called "improved bubble gum". I guess it was considered "improved" because bubble gum previously didn't exist at all! (Imagine a world without bubble gum. ...
• When I was about 5 years old, I had a piece of bubble gum that I didn't want because it had been on the sidewalk. ... The dog chewed the gum just as a human would, except that with each chomp, he opened his mouth as wide as it would possibly go. ...
• One of the most creative commercials ever to appear on American TV was for Hubba Bubba bubble gum and featured the Gum Fighter. ... To underscore this point, the commersh was set in the Wild West and involved a big, tough cowboy known as the Gum Fighter. To demonstrate Hubba Bubba's capabilities, the Gum Fighter stood before an angry mob and blew a bubble, which popped all over his face. ...
• At the end of the commersh, the Gum Fighter was shown dancing side-to-side, declaring, "Giant bubbles, no troubles!" .
• A few years later, there was a Hubba Bubba soft drink that supposedly tasted like the gum, but since then, the wildly unpopular brand of gum has rarely been spotted in the U. ...
• Then, I got the brilliant idea that if I stuck a piece of green bubble gum--mixed with fresh tar that had just been poured on the street--down inside my squirt gun, it would blow a bubble if I pulled the trigger. ...

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• What You Need to Know About Gum Disease .
• Simple Steps You Can Take to Prevent Gum Disease .
• Gum Disease May Increase Your Risk of a Heart Attack or Stroke .
• Innovative Home Dental Tools to Help You Win the War Against Gum Disease .
• How to Tell If You Have Gum Disease .
• Dentists call it periodontal disease or gum disease. ...
• 75 percent of the population suffer from gum disease in various degrees of severity. Mild gum disease is called gingivitis, severe gum disease is called periodontitis. Although gum disease can cause major problems and pain and expense, its symptoms are often mild, except in the most severe cases when your teeth start falling out. Many people who have mild to moderate gum disease don't even know they have it. ...
• The consequences of untreated gum disease can be quite serious. ... Pregnant women with gum disease have a significantly higher risk of miscarriage and premature birth. ...
• Fortunately, gum disease can easily be prevented by following a few simple oral hygiene rules. And if you have gum disease, you can improve your situation by improving your oral hygiene. ... What Happens When You Get Gum Disease?.

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