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8 The Lincoln Star Monday, Dec. 2, 1974 Anyone For A Hamburger? Despite the fact that they will face a 30-day diet of such as applesauce, bread, pears and green beans, many volunteers are anxious to the cause of in Dr. Constance test kitchen. Khufu Pyramid May Be Largest The Great Pyramid of ever created. Built years Pharoah Khufu (whom the ago, it has room in its ac Greeks called Cheops), may be base to enclose five of tn the most massive stone structure worlfB greatest carnearais.

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Nor will anyone query, as he approaches the dining area, for The 30-or so subjects who volunteer to stay on the controlled diet three times a day, generally for 30 days, know only too well what awaits them. The menu never varies. a very boring, tedious kind of research for the said Dr. Kies, whose projects are carried out in cooperation with Dr. Hazel Fox, chairman of the UNL food and nutrition department.

say I enjoyed it Dr. Kies laughed, as she recalled her own experience as a subject. had nightmares about hamburgers what happened to Subjects start their day with 100 grams of applesauce, plus starch bread, jelly and butter oil, served at all three meals. Lunch offers 100 grams of tomato juice, and 100 grams of peaches, plus a vitamin and mineral supplement. One hundred grams of pears and green beans add variety to the dinner meal.

If the experiment is to test the protein of textured vegetable protein, a soy-based meat analog, this food is added in casserole form to lunch and dinner meals. If varieties of wheat are being analyzed, wheat bread replaces starch bread. Peanut butter has also been used as the test variable. Dr. Kies stressed that the test food should be almost the sole source of protein, filling at least of that nutrient need in the test diet.

I)r. Kies has also done studies on prepared breakfast cereal and instant mashed potatoes. This research, she said, is designed to give direction to food processors so they can improve their products. While depriving their tastebuds, subjects earn a dollar for each meal and extra again for proper collection of urine and stool specimens. And since they can eat only given them at meal-times snacking at home is out another bonus is a month minus a food bill.

What sounds like a get-rich- quick scheme is hardly that simple, stressed Dr. Kies. The studies, she said, take very dedicated people. Still, a waiting list of volunteers who are taken on a first come, first served basis anxious to serve the cause of science. Many prospective subjects, however, themselves after the trial day when they get a taste of what the next 30 days will be like.

try to clue them in on all the disadvantages in explained the researcher who aims at keeping her drop-outs at a minimum. Getting a go-ahead from student health is another hurdle potential subjects must first clear. Once the study is in progress, subject protection is achieved through medical personnel who function as subject advocates rather than as coresearchers, Dr. Kies pointed out. All studies, she added, are first approved by a university ethics committee before they are undertaken.

NU food and nutrition research with human subjects has been going on some 35 years, Dr. Kies noted. only been the last few years that had any animal experimentation at she added. The NU Agriculture Experiment Station of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources covers the $10.000 per study costs. Five or six studies are conducted yearly.

In addition to students, penitentiary inmates and adolescent boys have also volunteered to be subjects. Although Dr. Kies does very little of the test-tube rattling lab technicians handle that end of the operation she says the Better Off Without Him DEAR ABBY: That letter from Time who asks what her chances for success are with the same mate has prompted me to write. I am an authority on the subject, having married the same man FIVE times. The first time we were married we were just kids 16 and 17.

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