Chewing Gum In School

Does chewing gum make you more alert as well as more attentive to what you're doing? Is it as distracting as walking while texting? How can something so simple be so helpful to our everyday life and essential to our future? Chewing gum has been proving to help us in school by increasing concentration on students. To prove that chewing gum helps students in school, a study was done in the United Kingdom that discovered people who chewed gum while memorizing a list of words did 25% better than those who didn't chew gum. Another study was done in Japan, with 9 participants found out that chewing gum boosted blood flow to the brain by 40%. "Increased blood flow means increased oxygen to the brain, and increased oxygen means increased concentration."