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Soy protein may affect body's iron absorption
By JOLYNNE WALZ Staff Reporter
University of Kansas Medical Center researchers will not publish their study of soy protein until December, but it could have been useful that the researchers are using caution.
Sean Lynch, one of the researchers,
said that the Agency for International
Development asked the Med Center
doctors to study the food value of soy
investigators found that soy may interfere with the body's ability to absorb iron.
"What they wanted us to do was to look for possible ways to improve our environment."
In a copyright story on Aug. 7, the Kansas City Times reported that the researchers had proven that soy inhibited iron absorption in humans and that the government's dietary guidelines—for school lunches, for food sold to soldiers in moss halls and for food shipped overseas—might be affected.
"That what's 'unfortunate about the way our study has been talked about," Lynch said. "If you look at a complete meal there are many things in a meal
IN A COMPLETE meal, he said,
foods besides soy affect iron
absorption. May there be inhibit it, and some
may enhance it.
In the Med Center study, 38 adult men were fed meals consisting entirely of soy protein—liquid soy and soy flour hamburgers—and their bodies did not absorb 92 percent of the iron in their meals.
"This meal that we've used is an
artificial meal," Lynch said. "It isn't very appetizing."
However, he said that the research team already planned to test soy's affect on iron absorption in a complete meal.
The Med Center's investigation of soy protein, Lynch said, was only part of a larger investigation by the Med Center into foods that the United States ships overseas, and the larger study is nowhere near finished.
THE SOY PROTEIN study will be published in the American Journal of Public Health Nutrition.
If the red blood cells in a person's body do not get enough iron, Lynch said, the cells cannot transport enough oxygen to the rest of the body, and the body becomes fatigued and drowsy. That condition is called iron-deficiency anemia.
None of the 36 men who participated in the study had an iron deficiency and carried the test, Lynch said, so their bodies needed to absorb a great deal of iron.
None of them developed iron-adenema anemia during the study, Lyme disease.
"I think that the most interesting threat we are in are other inhibitors in the diet," he said.
Other foods that he said inhibited iron and zinc, including coffee, tea and even iron-rich fish.
In the grocery store, shoppers can buy soy protein products such as pizzas, burrites, enchiladas, whipped toppings, cheese, pretzels, pancakes, pancake and muffin kits and tofu.
University officials want to stop teachers from changing final examination times without notifying the calendar committee.
"We want to send out a reminder to the department chairpersons early." The vice chancellor, said Tuesday. "It's just matter of not knowing for some people."
KU cracks down on exam time changes
By LISA MASSOTH Staff Reporter
FACULTY MEMBERS can petition to change a final exam date if they have a good reason. Final approval has to be granted by the calendar committee.
The last day to file a petition is Nov. 17.
The calendar committee schedules all University events.
Carothers, associate professor of English and former chairman of the committee.
Ernest Angino, professor of geology and chairman of the Senate Executive Committee, said SenEX wanted to find often exam dates were changed.
"I don't know how widespread it is, but there have been known cases," Angino said. "We are concerned that it happens."
Carothers said the number of patients flims and declined over the years. *The number*
"We received from a dozen to 20 last year," he said. "It is usually for a good
"I told them there was nothing I could
do," he said. "the calendar committee
has no judicial power."
academic reason. The computer science class wanted us to allow them to use Hoch to assure proper monitoring."
The calendar committee does not handle complaints from students, Carothers said. He said he got some phone calls from students wanting finals changed for a variety of reasons, including weddings.
ANGINO SAID a student should take the complaint to his teacher, the department chairman and finally to the dean. There is also the University ambulans, William Balfour, who hears complaints.
For those unfortunate students who have three final exams scheduled on
one day, it is often rumored that they
cannot cast one final changed with
without problem.
But Cobb said changing exams for that reason was fairly standard procedure.
"I don't know about a rule, but it is a pretty common practice," he said.
Not so, according to University policy. There is no policy that requires any department to arrange alternate students having three exams on one day.
"I was able to take the English test on
school and with the teacher's other
class," she said.
CHRIS COFFELT, Hays sophomore,
said that she had three exams
last semester and the same day last
semester but that it didn't cause a
problem for her.
Used as a "way to get honor students special access to intellectual resources," David Katzman, director of the College Honors Program, said, this series will expose students to an enriched environment and provide necessary interaction with the faculty, such as visiting lecturers.
Honor students will have the opportunity to talk with visiting lecturers on an informal basis in a new project by the College Honors Program.
Honor students to meet visiting lecturers
information about visiting lecturers
information spent from
announcements by various sources
Another new aspect of the College Honors Program is on the formal rather than the informal level of the small group meetings.
Honor students will meet visiting lecturers in small groups of five or six. The time will be spent so that the students have lunch, dinner or a
These student-lecturer meetings have taken place on a sporadic basis the last few years, Katzman said, but they will now be offered regularly. He added that he hoped the program would promote an intellectual attitude toward lectures and would have a spill-over effect on the rest of the campus.
In conjunction with the Summerfield and Watkins-Berger scholarship committees, the College Honors Program is sponsoring a two-year lecture series on the "Nature of Universities."
Katzman said the reason for the series was to discover why universities were formed. This year the series will concentrate on the origins of univer-
discussion meeting with the lecturer.
series is only open to honor
students.
Katzman said the informal meetings also would be of benefit to the guest lecturers by providing them opportunities to discuss subjects beyond their specialties.
sities, tracing their history back to medieval times.
This fall there are more than 200 freshmen and 200 sophomores in the program. Katzman said between 400 freshmen and seniors participated in the program.
ADMISSION TO The College Honors program is open to National Merit semifinalists, finalists in the Summerfield and Watkins-Berger competitions and participants with ACT composite scores of 30 or higher or comparable SAT scores.
Students who have slightly lower test scores but have outstanding academic records are also considered.
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