Does chewing gum really stay in your digestive tract for seven years?

This is just a wives' tale I've heard over and over. It seems completely implausible and ridiculous, but I would love to hear some opinions on the matter. Asked by Tozhra 48 months ago Similar questions: chewing gum stay digestive tract years Health.

Similar questions: chewing gum stay digestive tract years.

Heck NO! If it seems implausible and ridiculous it's because it IS! Just think of how your stomach works....it churns and gurgles and your stomach acids works on the food particles making them into a slurry that then go down into your small intestine and then your larger intestine which elimates the water from the mixture to then be eliminated as your number 2.No soft matter of any kind is going to stay in your gut for 7 years or 7 days or probably 7 hours for that matter!

I heard that your stomach usually empties out into the small intestine in just 90 minutes. Old Wives tales in this day and age of modern medicine are more than weird! Sources: my thoughts and I watched it on Discovery just the other night.

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Lol, No I think you are confusing the concept. It is that it might take 7 years for gum to digest if it could stay in your system that long. But nothing can stay for that long.

Your body completely clears out at the worst weekly. Usually within 48 hours. I think you are just going through snopes to find funny questions.

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No. Please refer to this link for more details: snopes.com/oldwives/chewgum.asp I'm giggling over here, imagining a lump of gum, sitting in the colon, with a calendar in hand, letting all kinds of other foods get by...and when the other foods ask, "Why ya waitin' here? " the gum replies, "Cuz it's not time for me to go yet." confuzzled's Recommendations Do Blue Bedsheets Bring Babies?

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No. It's fortunate that peristalsis (the undulating movement of smooth muscles) in our GI tract prevents the gum from sticking around.

No, that's just a myth Gum will pass through your body in the same amount of time as food, but your body doesn't digest it like it would food. It's better not to swallow it, but your stomach acid is powerful enough that it wouldn't sit for 7 years.

Is there any possibility that excessive alcohol consumption can disrupt or damage bacterial flora in the digestive tract.

A gum-chewing girl, and a cud-chewing cow are different, yet alike somehow!

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