In the heart of any fanatically passionate about sports and dieting woman, would not refuse to lose weight, just chewing chewing gum. Want - get. The most fashionable women's magazines place articles on the use of chewing gum for weight loss - they say, chewing gum that does not contain sugar, we lose 100 calories per hour. Almost like aerobics! But the chewing gum can be chewed all the time of wakefulness, at least 12 hours - all in all, 1200 kcal per day is obtained, just chewing gum.
Do you really believe that everything is so simple?
And millions of women in the world believe and spend $ 50-100. for a pack of "specialized" chewing gum for weight loss.
The process of losing weight on the chewing gum
Whether you take the usual chewing gum "for the freshness of the mouth" or the special product, which we will discuss below, it does not matter. The essence remains the same:
- you have to start chewing gum to lose weight after eating, so you will kill yourself the desire to eat dessert and develop the instinct of "Pavlov's dog", which signals the end of the meal, as soon as a chewing gum enters your mouth;
- chew gum should be eaten instead of eating - as soon as you are drawn to a snack, take the chewing gum in your mouth and forget about the famine.
It is here, from the very beginning of chanting the simplicity of losing weight, we are faced with the harm of chewing gum. First, any chewing gum contains some sugar, even a sweetener. If you have at least a minimal sensitivity to sugar, or rather, to an increase in its level in the blood, the secretion of insulin will lead to a new attack of hunger. Although, mechanical work with teeth leads to the secretion of gastric juice, which, of course, is useful after eating.
Secondly, if you chew gum to kill hunger, you can provoke both gastritis and ulcer. After all, as we just mentioned, chewing leads to the secretion of gastric juices. If you just ate - the juices will be busy digesting food, if you have not eaten for a long time - digesting the mucous membrane of the stomach.
And, third, such suppression of hunger is false. If you always chew from hunger, your body will stop distinguishing the real hunger from a simple whim - the desire to eat "something tasty." This will lead to the fact that you will lose contact with your stomach, not having any more opportunity to feel neither real hunger nor its satisfaction. In order not to grow fat after such a "masticating weight loss", it will be necessary to strictly control portions for the rest of his life, not depending on hunger, but on observance of capital norms.
Specialized chewing gums
Of course, companies that produce dietary supplements have not missed the opportunity to create a chewing gum with a special composition for weight loss. An example of this marketing move is the chewing gum for slimming Extra Drive, produced by the Estonian company BAD . However, the chewing gum itself is not registered as a dietary supplements, which should, first of all, alert.
The chewing gum composition is as follows:
- green coffee;
- Goji berries;
- Cambodian Garcinia;
- African mango;
- berries acai;
- hoodia gordony.
In principle, all these components of "weight loss experts" have already seen on the packaging of powders, tablets, capsules for weight loss. The main active component of chewing gum is hoodia gordoni - it's an edible cactus. The action of hoodia is predictable - it is a laxative and diuretic, as
In fact, there's nothing wrong with accepting a laxative - it's not poison. Just the pounds that left with feces and urine, very quickly return. And the laxative of the same action can be easily found and cheaper. In these chewing gums there is nothing super dangerous, but they can not lose weight "on the present". That is why manufacturers and are protected from lawsuits dissatisfied with short notes on the label, indicating that the chewing gum is not an independent tool for weight loss, but only helps to adhere to the diet.