ISU researchers seek healthy participants for dietary fiber, satiety study

December 2, 2008

AMES, Iowa -- Healthy volunteers are needed to participate in research studies designed to determine the effects of drinks containing fibersol-2TM, a dietary fiber, on satiety, the sense of satisfaction or fullness following a meal.

Potential participants are 20-65 years of age, male or non-pregnant, non-lactating females who are willing to fast overnight on five occasions. Subjects must be in good health with no food allergies and have body weights within approximate normal range. Those who use tobacco products are not eligible.

Participants will complete four or five study treatments, one per week. Each treatment visit will require an overnight fast prior to the visit. Each treatment visit will involve consumption of a pre-meal beverage and a study meal in the morning; a series of blood samples will be collected from each participant over a two-hour period. One study requires subjects to fast for 18 hours on two occasions.

Study visits will run from approximately 10 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. or from 10 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. in the Nutrition and Wellness Research Center at the ISU Research Park in Ames. Financial compensation is available.

To sign up or for more information, prospective participants who meet the criteria should contact Kai Ling Kong, a graduate assistant who works on the study. Kong can be reached by email at kailing@iastate.edu or by phone at 515 294-1990.

Contacts:

Kai Ling Kong, graduate student, food science and human nutrition, 515 294-1990.

Suzanne Hendrich, professor, food science and human nutrition, 515 294-4272.

Stacy Ewing-Blount, communications coordinator, Nutrition and Wellness Research Center, 515 294-4853.

Cathy Curtis, communications editor, College of Human Sciences, 515 294-8175.

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