{"id":64549,"date":"2009-04-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-nutrition-researchers-seek-volunteers-for-gum-chewing-study\/"},"modified":"2009-04-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T00:00:00","slug":"uri-nutrition-researchers-seek-volunteers-for-gum-chewing-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2009\/04\/uri-nutrition-researchers-seek-volunteers-for-gum-chewing-study\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 nutrition researchers seek volunteers for gum chewing study"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 6, 2009 — 溏心vlog免费B站 researchers are looking for volunteers to take part in a nutrition study that will determine whether chewing a great deal results in a lower intake of calories.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe call it the gum study,\u201d said Kathleen Melanson, 溏心vlog免费B站 associate professor of nutrition, who is researching eating habits and how they might relate to weight gain.<\/p>\n


\n\tAccording to Melanson, a major concern of health professionals in the U.S. is the nation\u2019s overweight population, and researchers at 溏心vlog免费B站 are exploring a wide variety of ways to determine how eating habits affect weight gain and loss. Melanson made national news two years ago when one of her studies indicated that eating slowly can result in the consumption of fewer calories.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe latest study takes a different tack\u2014chewing more thoroughly. Previous studies had not used this tactic to slow eating rate, but Melanson\u2019s research provides clues that it might be important.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe want to explore what is it about chewing that helps people eat less,\u201d she said. \u201cThere are indications that the act of chewing sends certain signals to the brain that could affect appetite.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tTo explore this concept, she and her post-doctoral student, Dan Kresge, are relying on something quite low-tech\u2014chewing gum.<\/p>\n


\n\tFor the gum study, Melanson and Kresge need 40-60 volunteers, both men and women, in the 18-48 age bracket. Those who sign up will receive a $60 stipend for finishing the study. Participants must make three visits to the nutrition labs in 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Ranger Hall. The first visit will be used to gather information and to measure a participant\u2019s body composition and fitness.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe next two sessions will last about 4-5 hours each. Before each session, the participants will be asked to fast overnight and to avoid caffeine, alcohol, strenuous activity and unusual foods. The volunteers will lie on a hospital bed under a ventilated hood hooked to a machine that measures respiratory gases. During this phase, volunteers will chew gum during one of the two days.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe volunteers will then be given a shake to consume and asked to rate appetite and the palatability of the shake and then return to the hood for more measurements. On the gum-chewing days, volunteers will chew gum for two more sessions during the course of the morning. <\/p>\n


\n\tThose interested in taking part in the study are asked to e-mail emluri@etal.uri.edu and mention \u201cGum Study.\u201d<\/p>\n

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KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 6, 2009 — 溏心vlog免费B站 researchers are looking for volunteers to take part in a nutrition study that will determine whether chewing a great deal results in a lower intake of calories. \u201cWe call it the gum study,\u201d said Kathleen Melanson, 溏心vlog免费B站 associate professor of nutrition, who is researching eating habits […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}