Is it true that chewing gum causes water retention?

howfatami69

Presumably, due to the artificial sweeteners

Also, when you chew, you might as well swallow on the air, causing bloating

I am cutting and chewing gum helps to mitigate the hunger feeling, although I would hate a trade off of water weight and looking bloated

maureenkhilde

I have never heard anything like this and chew sugarless gum all of the time. And been losing about 2 pounds per week since May 2018. Have lots to lose. I have however been told if you are going to see your Dr. or anywhere to get your blood pressure checked you should not be chewing gum within 20 minutes of the time of having your blood pressure checked. Why because it will/can falsely raise your blood pressure by as much as 10 points. Have been told this by multiple nurses and I questioned my primary Dr. on this as well.

cmriverside

How much gum are you chewing?

I don't chew gum, but the amount of sugars/artificial sweetener in a stick of gum is minute.

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steveko89

I don't have any data to support this but I'd suppose that any potential (and seemingly unlikely) negative effect chewing gum would have on aesthetics would be both temporary, and overshadowed by the net positive of assisting you in keeping to your deficit.

maureenkhilde

howfatami69 wrote: »

maureenkhilde wrote: »

I have never heard anything like this and chew sugarless gum all of the time. And been losing about 2 pounds per week since May 2018. Have lots to lose. I have however been told if you are going to see your Dr. or anywhere to get your blood pressure checked you should not be chewing gum within 20 minutes of the time of having your blood pressure checked. Why because it will/can falsely raise your blood pressure by as much as 10 points. Have been told this by multiple nurses and I questioned my primary Dr. on this as well.

Thanks! By sugarless do you also mean calorie-less by any chance? The one that I was doing is about 125 calories per 100 grams (and I consume about 25 grams). Cheers!

The ones I normally chew have 4 calories per piece, and I think I average 5 per day. Oh oh, I need to account for those pieces and have not been doing so. They are sugarless but do have some calories.

kimny72

When you see online that "artificial sweeteners" cause anything, you can probably disregard it. Why? Because each artificial sweetener is a different compound. It's not logical to think that even though they are all different substances, they all cause the same something or other.

And as someone else said, there is very little of any ingredient in a little stick of gum.

Some people do experience bloating if they swallow a lot of air while chewing, gum or anything else.

If you are retaining water, you might want to look at other possible causes. I'm not saying it definitely isn't your gum, but I'd think there are more likely possibilities.

You can always just stop the gum for a week or two and see what happens.

DoubleUbea

My dietitian said that artifical sweetners in things like "Mio" drink mixes are a duretic.
I chew Ice Breakers gum everyday, five calories a square piece of gum. It says on the side "not a low calorie food"

angelsja

If I chew gum between meals I get bloated and gassy so I had to quit

WandaVaughn

I always have a stick of sugarless peppermint gum in my mouth while I'm running. Keeps the mouth moist and that helps on short runs when I don't want to carry water. Never noticed any problems with the habit.

cwolfman13

Seriously doubt it...

kami3006

Maybe if you're chewing it like this:

Chrystalanne90

I chew gum everytime I drive, it helps my driving anxiety (aka, road rage lol). The worst it does for me is accident chomping in my cheek lol.

WinoGelato

This seems like something that, even if it exists, would be such an insignificant contributor to water retention that it is not even worth the energy to further research or explore this. Do you really think that there would be enough significant water retention that it would be outwardly visible and could be traced back to the gun chewing, and not one of the myriad other reasons that a person, especially women, might retain water?

I never understood why people get so hung up on water retention - it comes and goes and adjusting all of your dietary habits around it just seems like an exercise in futility.