Chew gum and help your brain remember.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Class, please turn to Page 43 in this month's Prevention magazine (November, $2.99) and prepare to gloat.

All you smart-aleck, gum-chewing, lip-smacking, bubble-blowing students were right: Chewing gum can make you smart.

In the article "Gum's Not Dumb," the magazine reports that British researchers at the University of Northumbria discovered that chewing gum could improve your long- and short-term memory by 35 percent.

When volunteers were shown a series of words on a computer screen, gum-chewers remembered the most words right away and 25 minutes later. Researchers suspect gum chewing increases blood flow to the brain and stimulates insulin ...