Experimental diet
may help nutrition
By Mary Shackelton
While most UN L students subsist on residence hail cuisine or
assorted apartment kitchen qoodies, 28 dietetics majors currently
are experiencing a diet of millet and triticale, a cereal mads from
wheat and rye. '
The diet, designed by the East Campus food and nutrition
research staff, is one of a series of human metabolism
experiments being done to establish protein values in grains, said
Constance Kies, food and nutrition professor. The experiment
series has been going on for about 10 years, she said.
Believing hunger in Nebraska and other places may be one
result of the experiment, according to Kies. By establishing grain
protein values, the nutritional values of food products already on
the market can be improved, she said. f -
Diet participants eat three meals daily, Kies explained. They
have apple sauce, beef broth and a triticalae-miNet for breakfast.
Lunch consists of green beans, beef broth, peaches and the
triticalae-millet combination. Dinner is similar to lunch, she said.
At night, each person drinks a can of pop to insure that
enough calories are included in the diet. . -
The diet experiment, which will end Saturday, is an 18-day
project The first two days, participants ate no protein. The next
four days, dry skim milk was the main diet ingredient. After that,
four days wera spent on millet, four days on triticalae, and the
final four days on the triticalae-millet combination.
Saturday morning, Kies and her subjects will celebrate the
experiment's end at a pancake house.
According to Kies, the experimental diet is "completely
adequate in vitamins, probably more adequate than what the
students usually eat, but doesn't taite as good."
Aside from determining protein value, the experiment helps
students understand what it's like to live on a limited diet, Kies
said.
This is important, because most of the students are dietetics
majors and they will be putting persons on restrictive diets
themselves, she said.
Several of the participants agreed.
"I never had to diet before. I didn't know how difficult it is to
eat the same thing everyday," one student said.
Another student said after she started the diet, she and her
boyfriend couldn't go anywhere because she couJdn'tsat ut Jrink
anything. - . io;:. . - -h
tTheexperfmentr-financed by the Nebraska Agricultural
Experiment Station, was atypical from other experiments because
nutrition students were used as subjects, Kies said.
"Usually, we select subjects randomly or work with a specific
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