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7. But You Can Burn This Off By Chewing Gum For Around 30 Minutes

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Don't fret, there's a solution if your job involves licking stamps all day. All you need to do is chew some gum and keep the pounds off your no-doubt slender frame.

According to the Mayo Clinic and findings in the New England Journal Of Medicine, chowing down on some chewing gum can burn up to 11 calories per hour. That means a scant 30 minutes of chewing will nullify that horrendous-tasting stamp and, better yet, replace it with some minty freshness.

For some reason, the Journal Of Medicine also found it necessary to inform people that chewing gum is far from an effective weight loss technique. Presumably, some well-meaning gym-goers have tried sitting around eating Airwaves until they squeeze back into that party frock.

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