Remember those wax bottles filled with colored sugar water that you’d bite the top off, drink the sickeningly sweet liquid, then chew the tasteless wax for ... (now diplomatically renamed “candy ...

Microplastics —tiny plastic bits that can take hundreds of years to break down—are everywhere, from tap water to tea bags, ...

Researchers tested ten different chewing gum brands, and found no difference between synthetic and natural gum.

“Our initial hypothesis was that the synthetic gums would have a lot more microplastics because the base is a type of plastic ...

A new study found that both natural and synthetic gum shed microplastics, with each piece of gum producing about 100 pieces ...

The researchers' analysis revealed that the lion's share of the microplastics were released from the gum in the first two ...

Barlome Town — A truck with chewing sticks parked near an open field. Some of the sticks lay on the ground. It had been parked for three weeks in Barlome Town on the Grand Bassa-River Cess highway.

According to a new pilot study that found chewing just one piece can release hundreds to thousands of microplastics into ...

Gum chewing has been shown to boost blood flow ... while 25 received tongue depressors reminiscent of popsicle sticks. Participants chewed on their right side for 30 seconds, then rested for ...

The UK is one of the biggest consumers of chewing gum globally, with fans chomping through an average of 120-130 sticks each year. Briton's biggest chewers also cost the country a pretty penny ...

Chewing harder materials like wooden sticks can boost brain glutathione levels and improve memory performance, according to South Korean research. Who knew that a good chew could do more than just ...

That small, innocent-looking stick of gum tucked in your purse or ... beyond cavities to digestive system disruptions, chewing gum presents health challenges that most people never consider ...