Bubble-gums

It is difficult to determine whether bubble-gums are food products, because on the one hand we chew them, but on the other we don't swallow them and they don't go through all stages of digestion. If we consider chewing-gums following the method of exclusion, we won't be able to refer them to any other class of things. So, bubble-gums are rather food products than something else. If it is a food product, then what can it give to our body?

All grown-ups understand that bubble-gums are unhealthy and do harm to one's health but it is often very difficult for them to explain this fact to their children, who admire bubble-gums and can't imagine their lives without them. Why are they so admirable for our children?

Children like to chew a gum because they find it tasty and funny. Especially they like to blow up bubbles. They even arrange competitions with blowing up the biggest bubbles. But what about health? All those who chew gums think about their health least of all in such moments. For nothing! Bubble-gums are very harmful for one's health indeed.

Let's start with chemical composition of a bubble-gum. Even those children, who can read, can't read the composition on the cover. These words are too long and difficult to pronounce. Grown-ups can't read these words either, but they at least understand they don't promise anything good. The fact there are no natural components in any bubble-gum is very conspicuous. Different tests show that bubble-gums contain weed and pest-killer chemicals, heavy metals and so on. Trying to find something healthy or natural in a bubble-gum is like to look for a needle in a haystack. This is absolutely useless.

Apart from direct harm to one's health, bubble-gums cause an indirect harmful impact on our digestive apparatus. When a person is chewing something, his/her stomach is preparing for the reception of food, and it causes the release of gastric juice and enzymes in our intestine. When our stomach doesn't get the "promised" food, all these substances begin to irritate walls of stomach and mucous membrane of our intestine. All these factors provoke false appetite. That is why whatever you do after having chewed a gum, everything is harmful. In this case you may either eat something, which is now unnecessary to your stomach, or keep from eating and suffer from unpleasant feelings and burning pain in your stomach.