Why when we chew gum we get hungry?

Question

Why when we chew gum we get hungry?

Answer 1

gum companies want us to dine out

Answer 2

because your brain would think that you are eating.........

Answer 3

it stimulates digestion mechanism but there is no food to digest

Answer 4

i completely agree with art lover

Answer 5

I think it has to do with the fact that you are chewing and your brain thinks that as eating and you get hungry because you're not actually eating.  But for me, it helps my hunger go away.

Answer 6

ITS LIKE A STOMACH TEASER.

THE TASTE ISN'T ENOUGH SO IT GETS U MORE HUNGRIER

Answer 7

not everyone feels that way....some lose their appetite..it has to do with the  "juices" the gum makes or the acid build up

Answer 8

There are a set of stimuli and responses that out body reacts to. Chewing is an action which triggers off the secretion of the 'digestive enzymes' in our body, so that when the food we swallow reaches the stomach, its ready for being digested. Such an intervowen mechanism.

Hunger is there when the enzymes are secreted but there is nothing to digest.  When we chew gum, we do the 'action' of chewing - but there is nothing to swallow. So the digestive enzymes secrete, but find nothing to digest. Hereby  you  feel the feeling of 'hunger'.

Answer 9

Because it stimulates the gastric juices causing you to feel hunger.

Answer 10

chewing gum is really gross, chewing gum i hate the most

Answer 11

You are activating your taste buds and this signals the stomach that it needs to eat

Answer 12

chewing gum is actually not good for you because you are activating the digestive juices in your stomach but there is no food in there to digest

Answer 13

Because of the sugar; it makes you lots of energy just for a short moment then will fall back below before you ate the gum and it makes you feel hungry. that's y runners want something sweet at the last minute of their running.........

Answer 14

Because we are using the eating mechanism and not actually getting any food so the body gets confused and gets hungry.

Answer 15

because you have worms

Answer 16

when we chew..we secrete  digestive enzymes... which  are to help in digestion...

therefore....we get..hungry

Answer 17

I would say it is because it makes your mouth salivate, and therefore makes your tummy hungry!!!

Answer 18

cause they have special enzymes to some will make you hungry!

Answer 19

i think its just u that never happened to me