In today’s times everyone is extremely conscious about what they put into their mouth and how it will impact their health. Exercise, diet and good mental health are fast becoming a priority with gym-memberships becoming a necessity rather than a privilege. 

Albeit gyms can tone all parts of your body but when it comes to your jawline there are relatively few exercises to hone the same. Jawlines sag or get de-shaped due to multiple reasons – age, obesity, lifestyle factors et al. While there’s always the fast-track solution of cosmetic surgery to rectify the jawline; but the affordability of the same restricts it to the upper echelons of society while many dread the side-effects of the same. 

But what very few people are aware of is that properly chewing certain food items can work wonders for the jawline. Chewing gum for instance packs in a plethora of benefits as it - 

• Perfects your jawline 
• Curbs your cravings enabling you to make better eating choices leading to a slimmer waistline
• Burns up to 50+ calories on a daily basis
• Helps protect your teeth and increase your saliva flow (so long as it’s sugarless chewing gum!) 
• Increases blood flow to your brain thereby enhancing your memory
• Helps combat drowsiness
• Alleviates acid reflux and heartburn
• Reduces anxiety, depression, fatigue, and other mental illnesses 
• Puts eight different muscles of the face and neck in action 
• Reduces double chin
• Eliminates nausea

Of all these benefits the one which made your eyes gleam was ‘perfect jawline’… right? Relax there’s a huge bunch of people out there who are prepared to go to any limit for firming up their jawline barring surgical procedures or magic potions.  For all those desperate souls Foodism brings kitchen shelf solutions 

Research claims that proper chewing and chomping exercises the jaw muscles enabling them to stay fit, lean and taut. But unfortunately our daily diet items like - bread, cooked vegetables, lentils, pasta, noodles, tea, coffee or juice – need zero or minimum chewing and in fact can be swallowed in a jiffy! 

In such a scenario, the best food solutions for those who would prefer to refrain from chewing gum could be –

Hard foods 

Regularly nibble on raw fruits and vegetables like apple, beetroot, carrot, pear, radish, etc. 

Nuts

Imbibe a good chewing experience (and a yummy one at that!) by consuming almonds, pistachios, walnuts et al

Other foods

Corn kernels and sugarcane pieces are a boon for your jaw muscles

So the next time before you berate your teenager child for chewing gum like a cow just give a thought to the hoard of pluses chewing gum offers besides of course an envious jawline!