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Can chewing gum with sugar affect your day’s calorie allotment - and your weight-loss efforts? … and more of your questions answered here.

Every day I chew two packs of bubble gum containing sugar. (I don’t like sugarless gum.) Can chewing this much gum cause weight gain?
Yes. One piece of Bubble Yum has 25 calories, as much as one Hershey’s Kiss or two gumdrops. If you chew 10 pieces a day - two packs - you’re consuming 250 empty calories. Big Red, Doublemint and Juicy Fruit contain 10 calories per stick.

Although Sugarless Bubble Yum contains 20 calories a piece, most sugar-free gums contain just 5 calories a stick. “Give sugar-free gums another try,” says Gail Frank, Dr.PH., R.D., a nutrition professor at California State University, Long Beach, and a spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association. Read more of Blowing It With Buble Gum