Don’t Chew Your Youth Away!

The pageant-ready Orbit gum girl sure looks young and chirpy now, but to keep up appearances, she might want to lose that chronic gum chewing habit. A New York City acupuncturist reasons – get this, chewing gum might make us look old! Although the scientific community has yet to definitively prove the claim, the premise seems beyond logical: our body systems are more interconnected than we think. The excessive digestive enzyme from chewing gum creates a chain effect that ends with our face looking all leathery. After all, you are what you eat, in this case not digest: popping an entirely artificial hunk of rubbery THING is not exactly an organic food choice. As if we don’t spend enough on beauty products to fight the clock – just look at the recession-defying beauty industry – it’s a rather useless habit to negotiate. It might leave you with a clean feeling, but perhaps a not so fresh face. Better safe (with gum chewing in moderation) than sorry.

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