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ODD: Chewing Gum For 10 Minutes Removes 100 Million Bacteria, Study Claims by vicostyle20: 11:52pm On Jan 25, 2015 |
Chewing gum has been discovered to remove harmful bacteria from mouths, according to a new study. The DailyMail has more: Researchers found that just a single piece of chewing gum can remove 100 million bacteria – 10 per cent of the microbial load in saliva – in ten minutes. And they say that gum can be just as effective as flossing – although they each targets different areas of the mouth. The study, which appeared in the journal Plos One, was led by researchers from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. They found that the gum was most effective in the first 30 seconds of chewing, and after that it would become less effective in trapping bacteria on a sliding scale. Also, they note that only gum that did not contain sugar was useful; if it did contain sugar, it could ‘feed’ oral bacteria. In one of their experiments, known numbers of bacteria were finger-chewed into the mouths of participants, and they were then asked to chew gum for 10 minutes. The researchers found that about 100 million bacteria were detected on each piece of chewed gum, with the number increasing as chewing time increased. ‘Trapped bacteria were clearly visualised in chewed gum using scanning-electron-microscopy,’ they wrote in their paper. They used two unnamed brands of spearming gum in their study. http://naijafussion..com/2015/01/odd-chewing-gum-for-10-minutes-removes.html |
Re: ODD: Chewing Gum For 10 Minutes Removes 100 Million Bacteria, Study Claims by Nobody: 11:59pm On Jan 25, 2015 |
Very soon Studies will find out that eating RAW YAM kills bacteria |
Re: ODD: Chewing Gum For 10 Minutes Removes 100 Million Bacteria, Study Claims by blemon44(m): 12:00am On Jan 26, 2015 |
but there is so much sugar in it i hate chewing gum |
Re: ODD: Chewing Gum For 10 Minutes Removes 100 Million Bacteria, Study Claims by Nobody: 12:00am On Jan 26, 2015 |
blemon44: Wetin we no go hear again for this life? |
Re: ODD: Chewing Gum For 10 Minutes Removes 100 Million Bacteria, Study Claims by ammyluv2002(f): 12:07am On Jan 26, 2015 |
Very odd |
Re: ODD: Chewing Gum For 10 Minutes Removes 100 Million Bacteria, Study Claims by chymystique(f): 12:10am On Jan 26, 2015 |
Interesting...... I now ve a genuine reason for chewing gum |
Re: ODD: Chewing Gum For 10 Minutes Removes 100 Million Bacteria, Study Claims by yungchop: 12:16am On Jan 26, 2015 |
Really?? Mallam knack me 20naira time bomb |
Re: ODD: Chewing Gum For 10 Minutes Removes 100 Million Bacteria, Study Claims by jessiecah(f): 3:11am On Jan 26, 2015 |
Brands like Orbit and trident not banana and super star.. |
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