How Many Calories Burnt Chewing Gum

There are a lot of benefits of chewing gum, and while you cannot always measure the calories burnt while chewing gum, there are ways in which it can help you burn more calories than you realize.

• Calorie loss: Chewing gum causes thermogenesis. While you will not be indulging in heavy exercising and will definitely not be breaking a sweat, you are still burning calories.
  It is reported that chewing sugarless gum for an hour can burn about 11 calories on average. For those who chew gum for longer periods of time, the calories burned when chewing gum also increase. A standard stick of regular gum contains 10 calories; the sugarless variety only up to 6 calories.
• Sugarless gum is a negative calorie food: Sugarless gum causes you to burn more calories than you consume. Ultimately, this allows you to build a calorie deficit, which is required to reduce fat.
• Decrease in appetite: Those who chew gum regularly have reported a continued loss of appetite. Since the gum is sweet, they also experience a decrease in their craving of sweet foods. Chewing gum between meals can prevent you from having cravings for snacks. Since the snacking in between meals usually contributes to a lot of calories, and we tend to snack on high fat foods, chewing gum can prevent you from consuming too many calories.
• Exercising your jaw: When you chew a piece of gum, you engage your masticatory muscles and work them as you continue to chew. When you exert pressure on the lateral and medial pterygoids that are important for opening and closing of the jaws, it burns calories directly. In fact, when chewing sugarless gum, you end up burning more calories than you are consuming. Chewing gum can be a very effective practice for losing face fat.