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USM Looking For Women to Participate in Weight-Loss Study

March 4, 2008

USM’s College of Nursing and Health Professions is launching a study led by Associate Professor of Exercise, Health and Sports Sciences Janet Whately Blum examining the effects of calcium on dieting women. Pre-menopausal women who are between the ages of 21 to 45 who need to lose between 30 to 60 pounds and who are not currently dieting or participating in regular exercise are invited to participate in the study.  The participants must be nonsmokers in good health with normal blood pressure and cholesterol levels, who are not diabetic and are not lactose intolerant.  They also cannot be on birth control, pregnant, or lactating. 

Participants need to be willing to follow a diet for 25 weeks, and attend weekly meetings for the first 12 weeks then bi-weekly meetings for the next 13 weeks at USM. No exercise will be expected throughout the 25 weeks.  Screenings of potential participants begin in March and weekly meetings for the 25-week study start in April, 2008.

Anyone who meets the above criteria should contact Research Assistant Rachel Doane in Exercise, Health and Sports Sciences at 207-780-5939 or rdoane@usm.maine.edu. USM’s College of Nursing and Health Professions is launching a study led by Associate Professor of Exercise, Health and Sports Sciences Janet Whately Blum examining the effects of calcium on dieting women. Pre-menopausal women who are between the ages of 21 to 45 who need to lose between 30 to 60 pounds and who are not currently dieting or participating in regular exercise are invited to participate in the study.  The participants must be nonsmokers in good health with normal blood pressure and cholesterol levels, who are not diabetic and are not lactose intolerant.  They also cannot be on birth control, pregnant, or lactating. 

Participants need to be willing to follow a diet for 25 weeks, and attend weekly meetings for the first 12 weeks then bi-weekly meetings for the next 13 weeks at USM. No exercise will be expected throughout the 25 weeks.  Screenings of potential participants begin in March and weekly meetings for the 25-week study start in April, 2008.

Anyone who meets the above criteria should contact Research Assistant Rachel Doane in Exercise, Health and Sports Sciences at 207-780-5939 or rdoane@usm.maine.edu.

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