Here’s good news for the chewing gum eaters. According to a recent research done in an Australian university, chewing gum can reduce the stress as well as anxiety.

The study conducted at Swinburne University in Melbourne by Professor Andrew Scholey said that chewing gum helps to reduce the anxiety and/or acute psychological stress.

Apart from this, the study also maintained that chew gum eaters are able to perform multi task activities as compared to the no chew gum eaters.

The study based on 40 volunteers averaging 22 years pointed out that gum chewers showed a reduction in anxiety as compared to non-gum chewers by nearly 17 percent during mild stress and nearly 10 percent in moderate stress. Gum chewers showed improvement in alertness over non-gum chewers by nearly 19 percent during mild stress and 8 percent in moderate stress.

The findings of the study were funded by the Wrigley Science Institute and these will be presented at the 10th International Congress of Behavioural Medicine, Rissho University in Tokyo.