Chewing Gum for Appetite Suppression
I long suspected that many people who overeat simply have a problem with what I like to call an oral fixation. I myself think that I have somewhat of an oral fixation, meaning that I like to keep my mouth busy a lot of the time by either chewing on something, or drinking something. Problem enters in when you are chewing on calories all day long, especially calories that go well above and beyong the daily allowance of calories that you need in your daily allowance.
I’ve often thought that chewing gum may have helped to prevent me to eat more, but I also thought that it might actually act as an appetite increaser in some people, especially if they were chewing on sugary gums all day, which would sort of defeat the purpose. However, in a recent study, many participants said that if they chewed on gum while preparing a meal, it made them less hungry and therefore less apt to “test taste” the foods over and over as they made them. This happens to be one of my bigger weaknesses, taste testing a bit too much! So naturally I took a little interest in that particular story.
This makes the argument for gum-form appetite suppressants like the hoodia gum breakthrough that we talk about here on this blog. Gum, I believe is a superior form to put an appetite suppressant in, because it is slow-released into the blood stream, which means it’s more of a constant presence in the blood stream, and keeps the blood sugar stable which in turn keeps the appetite down and lets you feel more full, longer and more satiated.
Hoodia is causing a sensation on its own, as I’m sure you’ve noticed, but many people are looking for Hoodia gum that works because they like to also chew gum, so in essence they are killing two birds with one stone, if I may use such an ugly ephamism 
. You are chewing gum, which keeps your mind off eating, and you are also getting a slow release through the saliva in the mouth to the blood stream of appetite - decreasing ingredients.
