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Article: Weightless or pregnant: maximizing mineral metabolism; Kimberly O'Brien uses the college's new Human Metabolic Research Unit to find out how humans metabolize calcium and other minerals--whether they are pregnant teens or weightless astronauts.
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- Human Ecology
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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Kimberly O'Brien, an associate professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, has been concerned about the nutritional needs of children since she began to understand that there was a huge gap in that knowledge, especially about how minerals are metabolized by the body under situations of physiological stress or increased needs. It was that realization that has led her to focus much of her research on the nutritional effect of pregnancy, particularly in teenagers who become pregnant before they reach age 19.
O'Brien, who joined Human Ecology's faculty in September 2005, uses the college's new 5,007-square-foot, state-of-the-art Frances A. Johnston & Charlotte ...