Center For Designing Foods To Improve Nutrition

   Human Metabolic Unit

 

       

 

The Human Metabolic Unit (HMU) is designed to run studies with free-living subjects and has the capacity to feed 24 people simultaneously in a large-sized dining room. It has a fully equipped metabolic kitchen, with an ice machine, several ovens, microwave ovens, large walk-in pantry, cold room, and freezer. Also within the HMU are two sample collection rooms, a lounge area, a statistical analysis and word processing office, a body composition room, and a designated room for bone densitometry via dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA). The body composition room is equipped to run bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA), dietary analysis via Nutritionist V, and anthropometry (Harpenden and other calipers).

 

See Also: HMU Costs 2006

Announcements:

• CDFIN Call for Proposals Released Related Link

• Diane Birt, Interim CDFIN Director, appointed to Institute of Medicine's Food Nutrition Board.          Related Link

• CDFIN Summer Scholars Program Featured. Related Link

• ISU food scientist Ken Prusa (Professor in Charge of CDFIN's Sensory Evaluation Unit) has identified a characteristic of pork that may be as significant to the industry as leanness.            News release

• We are pleased to announce that Diane Birt, Distinguished Professor of Food Science and Nutrition, has agreed to serve as Interim Director of the Center for Designing Foods to Improve Nutrition. Dr. Birt served as director of CDFIN from 1997 until 2002. As interim director, she will work with 100 affiliate faculty in 30 departments who conduct interdisciplinary research to improve human nutrition and health through new and traditional foods. The appointment is effective immediately.  (Read More)