Chewing gum is always associated with bad habits but we point out some serious and interesting hack behind the chewing gum. Chewing gum can, in fact, boost your memory, attention, cognitive reasoning skills, and other mental abilities.
St.Lawrence University had a detailed research regarding the same and the results are given below:
[stextbox id="info" caption="What research says.."]Gum is an effective booster of mental performance, conferring all sorts of benefits without any side effects. The latest investigation of gum chewing comes from a team of psychologists at St. Lawrence University. The experiment went like this: 159 students were given a battery of demanding cognitive tasks, such as repeating random numbers backward and solving difficult logic puzzles. Half of the subjects chewed gum (sugar-free and sugar-added) while the other half were given nothing. Here’s where things get peculiar: Those randomly assigned to the gum-chewing condition significantly outperformed those in the control condition on five out of six tests.[/stextbox]
What is the effective time period?
Generally, it helps for very short period, upto 20 minutes. The positive effects of chewing gum stays for around 20 minutes.
So, it will be really helpful when you want to go through your subject just in sometime before your college or school examinations or during other mentally intensive activity like playing chess or other activities.
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