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Chewing sugarless gum throughout the afternoon can curb consumption and craving of sweets and make people feel more energetic and alert through the p.m. doldrums, scientists reported April 19 at the Experimental Biology meeting in New Orleans. The new study was funded, natch, by the Wrigley Science Institute, a research arm of the chewing gum company. Participants were asked to periodically chew sugarfree gum during a three-hour stretch after lunch one day. Researchers found that, on average, chewers ate some 60 fewer calories of sweets in the mid-afternoon, when compared with a gum-free day. Chewers also reported feeling steadier energy levels during the afternoon, versus flagging levels on the day without gum.