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While it may prove a bit more difficult to break down than organic foodstuffs, chewing gum gets no special treatment from the digestive system.
Doctors figure this old wives’ tale was invented to prevent kids from swallowing the rubbery substance.

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I was telling my friend Shirley about a recent diagnosis of my high blood pressure.
“The doctors told me to quit eating red meat,” Shirley said,
“Well, did you quit,”? I replied, “Sure I did. You think I’m a dummy or something? I haven’t had a drop of ketchup on my hamburgers since!”
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Daniel Foster was dying from primary sclerosing cholangitis, which was diagnosed more than ten year ago. The only way forward was to have a liver transplant. and doctors said he needed one within a year.  In the UK, like the rest of the world, the list of those waiting for a transplant far exceeds donors. [...]