Gasp! My fourth grade teacher might've been right after all - chewing gum in class may actually be bad for you:
... scientists at Cardiff University in Wales now find chewing gum can impair classic tests of short-term memory — recalling lists of words and numbers in the order in which they were seen or heard. They also saw that people were less able to spot missing items in lists — for instance, that '7' was missing the list '28149365' taken from the digit set 1 to 9.
Link (Photo: Shutterstock) | The study by Michail D. Kozlov, et al.
And annoying loud chew sounds. No wonder teachers hate them in their classes/courses.
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...which brain?
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Those annoying people I ride the bus with who blow bubbles and make snapping noises with their gum sure don't seem to have a lot of brains.
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I figured this out years ago. It's just distracting, that's all. Nothing amazing about it that requires "research."
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