{"id":110,"date":"2022-08-02T07:16:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T07:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/help\/?p=110"},"modified":"2022-08-02T07:16:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T07:16:54","slug":"can-i-chew-gum-during-the-fasting-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/help\/can-i-chew-gum-during-the-fasting-window\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I chew gum during the fasting window?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In principle, you are not allowed to have any food or calorie intake during the fasting hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, because many other types are very low in calories, chewing a stick or two of sugar-free gum each day is unlikely to significantly affect your fast. So you\u2019d better check the label to confirm if it has many calories or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And chewing gum has many benefits as well. What could be very beneficial during fasting is that it can decrease hunger and appetite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 2015 study showed that chewing gum over 30 minutes could increase satiety and stabilize levels of Glucagon-like peptide 1, a hormone that can decrease appetite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, chewing gum can help you overcome hunger and make it easier to keep with your fasting plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In principle, you are not allowed to have any food or calorie intake during the fasting hours. However, because many other types are very low in calories, chewing a stick or two of sugar-free gum each day is unlikely to significantly affect your fast. So you\u2019d better check the label to confirm if it has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}