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Appalachian State University and UNC-Chapel Hill are partnering on a study to determine the impact of ingesting black pepper on your metabolism. They are testing the hypothesis that as little as 2/3 teaspoon of black pepper could increase metabolism by 100 calories. They are looking for subjects for this study – you need to be a non-smoking, post-menopausal female age 50-65. Participants will be paid $200 for their efforts. For more criteria and information on the study, read below.

RECRUITMENT INFORMATION FOR A RESEARCH PROJECT:
The Effect of Black Pepper on Your Metabolism
Principal Investigators:
David C. Nieman, DrPH, FACSM, Director of the Human Performance Lab at the NCRC and Professor, Appalachian State University;   Andrew G. Swick, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition, Director of Obesity and Eating Disorders Research, UNC Chapel Hill Nutrition Research Institute.
What is the purpose of this research?
Spices are natural food additives that have been used for thousands of years to season foods and promote health. People in the United States take in on average about 300 mg (1/8 teaspoon) of black pepper per day. Human studies with black pepper use up to 1,500 mg/day (2/3 teaspoon), and this amount will be used in this study. Some animal studies suggest that black pepper increases the resting metabolism (thus countering weight gain). The purpose of this study is to measure whether or not eating 1,500 mg of black pepper during one day will increase the resting metabolism (i.e., the number of calories your body burns to support life).
Who can take part in this research?
You are invited to take part in this research if you are a healthy, nonsmoking post-menopausal female (ages 50 to 65 years), and not carrying more than 60 extra pounds of body weight. You also do not exercise at high levels, have no known sensitivity or allergic reaction to eating black pepper, do not abuse drugs or alcohol, are not taking herbal supplements or medications that influence blood pressure and inflammation, and are accustomed to eating breakfast and meat.
What will I be asked to do?
The research project will be conducted at the Nutrition Research Institute at the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis, NC (500 Laureate Way). You will need to come to the Nutrition Research Institute a total of three times during the study. The first visit will take about 60 minutes, and the second and third visits one day each, and will take place on selected dates through the summer of 2011. During the first visit at the Nutrition Research Institute, you will be given an orientation to the study, complete several questionnaires, provide a small blood sample, and have your body composition measured. During the second and third visits (one day each, and one week apart), you will stay and sleep in the metabolic chamber (a small room with a bed and restroom connected to energy measuring equipment). One of the two days in the metabolic chamber will include 1,500 mg black pepper, and the other day will be exactly the same but without black pepper. A blood sample will be collected at 2:00 pm during each metabolic chamber session. The schedule in the metabolic chamber will be as follows:
7:30 am:   Report to the UNC Metabolic Chamber in an overnight fasted state (no food or beverage other than water from 11:00 pm). You will remain seated and in a resting state as much as possible. You can read, write and use a cell phone and laptop computer (Internet service provided). A supervisor will be present at all times.
9:00 am:   Breakfast (provided from the research kitchen through an airlock chamber).
1:30 pm:   Lunch (provided).
2:00 pm: A blood sample will be taken (analyzed for hormones that influence your metabolism).
7:00 pm: Supper (provided).
10:30 pm to 6:30 am: Bedtime, sleep
7:15 am: Leave the metabolic chamber.
Compensation
Your will receive $200 for following all study procedures, and receive results on your body composition and metabolism.
TO SIGN UP: Send an e-mail message to ASU-NCRC@appstate.edu or call Tondra Blevins at 704-250-5035.

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Study: Death penalty costlier than life sentences Kevin Fagan, Chronicle Staff Writer

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Maintaining the death penalty in California costs at least $184 million more a year than it would simply to leave killers in prison for life, and the average wait for a prisoner between conviction and execution has grown to more than 25 years, a report due to be released next week says.

The three-year study by a federal judge and a law professor also found that California taxpayers have spent an average of $308 million for each of the 13 executions conducted since capital punishment was reinstated in the state in 1978.

The study was conducted by Judge Arthur Alarcon, who sits on the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and his law clerk, Loyola Law School Professor Paula Mitchell, who spent three years examining federal, state and local costs associated with capital punishment.

Several other reports in recent years, including one in 2009 by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, have also concluded that executing prisoners is far more expensive than incarcerating them for life.

At the end of their 224-page report, Alarcon and Mitchell suggest that voters change the capital punishment system through an initiative, either to streamline the legal appeals and conviction process or to do away with executions altogether.

"We're not in the business of drafting initiatives, but we do propose ways the voters should consider to remedy this horrible situation," Mitchell said Monday. "We really wanted for this study to be academic and objective and to leave aside the question of morality over the death penalty so that voters can focus clearly on what they are spending.

"If people really knew what the death penalty costs us," Mitchell added, "I doubt they would want to continue it."

Mitchell said she opposes capital punishment, but her co-author does not.

Most surveys in the state, including a 2010 Field Poll, show continuing support for the death penalty. However, there have been no executions in California since 2006 because of legal challenges over whether the state's execution procedures violated the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

In reaction to the report, state Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Oakland, said she will introduce legislation next week that could lead to a ban on capital punishment. Her bill would generate an initiative proposing that voters abolish executions and convert existing death sentences to life without possibility of parole.

Kent Scheidegger, legal director of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation in Sacramento, which favors capital punishment, said the new report has "some good points, but it misses others."

He said the study was right to explore the Legislature's refusal to pass changes that would streamline the process, but disagreed that abolishing the death penalty was an acceptable alternative to simply making capital punishment more efficient.

E-mail Kevin Fagan at kfagan@sfchronicle.com.

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