Grad Student Seeks Volunteers for Cereal/Appetite Research
Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571
ORONO — University of Maine graduate student Megan Blackmore is looking for volunteers for a research project. A master’s student in Food Science and Human Nutrition, Blackmore is looking into the effects of different types of breakfast cereal on appetite.
Participants must be between the ages of 20 and 30 and have a Body-Mass Index (BMI) between 25 and 30. BMI is a widely accepted measure of a person’s relative level of body fat. A BMI calculator is online at http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/bmi/.
Participants must also be in good health, regularly eat breakfast. Those who are trying to lose weight or are in a vigorous athletic training program are not eligible. Pregnant or lactating women, smokers and people who have an allergy or intolerance to gluten, lactose, soy, corn or orange juice are also ineligible.
Those involved in the study will be asked to come to the UMaine campus one morning per week for four weeks to consume a different cold breakfast cereal and answer several questions about the cereal and their appetite. Each session should last one hour. Participants will also be asked to record everything they eat and drink, along with information about their appetite, on the testing days. All the information will remain confidential.
Those who complete the study will receive $40, along with a free breakfast on the testing days. The information gained from the study may lead to the development of new breakfast cereals that aid in weight loss. For more information please contact: Megan Blackmore, 581-1733 or via email (Megan_Blackmore@umit.maine.edu).