Volunteers Needed for Dairy Health Study

CANADA - The Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals is seeking volunteers interested in losing weight and improving health to participate in a Dairy Health Study, writes Bruce Cochrane.
calendar icon 8 April 2010
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The University of Manitoba's Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals, in cooperation with the Australian Nutritional Physiology Research Centre at the University of South Australia, is conducting human nutritional trials to determine whether low fat dairy consumption can improve health factors such as body weight, cholesterol levels, blood pressure, and metabolic rate.

Richardson Centre research and development manager Dr. Curtis Rempel says males and females between 18 and 75 who are healthy but interested in changing their lifestyles and losing a few pounds are encouraged to participate.

Clip-Dr. Curtis Rempel-University of Manitoba:

The trial itself is designed to be a year long.

If you're a study subject you're going to be at it for about a year which is kind of a good time frame in terms of actually making some lifestyle changes that stick with you then.

You'll be coming in, you'll be picking up your dairy products from us say once a month.

You can store them in your fridge etcetera, or biweekly if that's most convenient.

When you come in, a study subject is coming in, basically you're going to weigh in.

We'll be keeping track of weight and we'll be doing some blood work.

We're going to be looking at cholesterol levels and other blood lipids, we're going to be looking at insulin and blood sugar, we're going to be looking at how well your arteries perform doing some very simple non-invasive tests, we're going to be looking at your metabolic rate and looking at body fat composition.

That information is going to be evaluated after the one-year period and then that information is going to be tabulated and compiled and it's going to be published and submitted to various health agencies etcetera.


Dr. Rempel stresses the study is looking at small changes in dietary patterns to see if they can offer fairly large health outcomes.

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