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... FOXNews.com - Health News - Wrigley to Probe Health Benefits of Gum Chewing SEARCH E-MAIL STORY PRINTER FRIENDLY FOXFAN CENTRAL FOXNEWS.COM HOME HEALTH Wrigley to Probe Health Benefits of Gum Chewing Wednesday, March 29, 2006 CHICAGO — Here's a juicy thought to chomp on.

What if the simple act of chewing gum helped you keep your weight down, reduce stress, improve focus — or all three?

Sure, a cynic might reply, just as eating pizza raises your IQ and chocolate-chip cookies make you skinny.

Wm.

Wrigley Jr.

Co., though, is so hopeful of the possibilities that it is launching a multimillion-dollar, multi-year effort to prove them.

Citing "emerging research" that suggests chewing may be beneficial, the gum maker has created the Wrigley Science Institute, consisting of an international advisory panel of scientists and research experts who are studying the sticky matter.

Surinder Kumar, Wrigley's chief innovation officer, says the 115-year-old company has been hearing from consumers for decades about chewing's benefits — some of them, he contends, "just plain common sense." Now it is looking for scientific proof to back up the anecdotal evidence.

The company hopes the results, which won't be known for another year or so, will give people a whole new reason to chew gum — any gum, although as the world's No.

1 gum purveyor and with 63 percent of the U.S.

market, Wrigley clearly would reap the biggest revenue rewar...

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-Thursday, March 30, 2006- Web posted at: 3/30/2006 1:55:12 Source ::: Reuters Filipinos throwing plates and shouting at a wall as an unusual form of anger management at the Isdaan restaurant in Gerona, north of Manila.

GERONA, Philippines: Ardith Vescara is an angry young woman.

On top of family and academic pressure, the 13-year-old Filipina says boys tease her at school.

But instead of letting her emotions eat away at her, she is treating herself to an unusual form of anger management.

At the Isdaan restaurant in Gerona, about three hours north of Manila, Vescara and other patrons work out their stress for 15 pesos (30 U.S.

cents) a go by hurling plates at the “wall of fury” emblazoned with words such as ex-wife, boss and lover.

A shout of “tacsiyapo” — or “shame on you” in the local dialect — usually accompanies the sound of smashing crockery.

Vases and bowls are also available, while the wealthier of the furious...