Ohio State University to Study Raw Milk Drinkers? with lead researcher's resume

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This is the press release from the university: More info is after the press

release.

Volunteers Needed for Milk Study in Columbus, Wooster10/8/2010

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- More people are choosing to drink raw milk these days, and

Ohio State University researchers are hoping to find out why.

They are looking for 120 people who drink either raw or pasteurized milk to take

part in a study this fall being conducted in Columbus and Wooster. Volunteers

will be asked to meet with researchers twice -- to complete a written survey,

take part in a health assessment, supply a four-day dietary intake record,

provide a sample of milk they normally drink, and take part in a 1.5-hour-long

focus group session. They will be paid $50 for their time and trouble.

" We truly do not know very much about how people make the choice to drink raw or

pasteurized milk -- there's just nothing in the literature, " said Lydia

Medeiros, a scientist with the university's Ohio Agricultural Research and

Development Center and Ohio State University Extension, and a professor of human

nutrition in the College of Education and Human Ecology.

Medeiros, the study's co-principal investigator, is working with graduate

student Alyssa Mark and colleague Jeff LeJeune, also with OSU Extension and an

associate professor with OARDC's Food Animal Health Research Program. LeJeune is

principal investigator of the study.

They are seeking 60 participants who drink raw milk and 60 who drink pasteurized

milk. Their research plan calls for half of each group to live on farms, to see

if there are differences in reasoning for milk choices between farm families and

non-farm families. Participants must be 18 years or older.

Although the sale of raw milk is banned in Ohio, many people obtain it through

" cow leasing, " a practice in which they own a portion of a dairy cow and so can

drink the milk it produces. Other raw-milk consumers know dairy farmers who

freely share milk with friends and neighbors, or they cross the border into

Pennsylvania where it's legal to sell raw milk on farms and retail outlets.

Because of health concerns, the Food and Drug Administration bans interstate

sales of raw milk, but raw-milk proponents believe that healthful microbes in

raw milk are destroyed in the pasteurization process.

To participate in the study or to learn more, contact Lydia Medeiros at

614-292-2699 or Janet Buffer at 614-247-8388.

The study is funded by the Department of Human Nutrition's T. Kline Hamilton

Research Endowment for Graduate Research, and the U.S. Department of

Agriculture's National Integrated Food Safety Initiative.

Writer:

Martha Filipic

filipic.3@...

614-292-9833

Source:

Lydia Medeiros, Human Nutrition

LMedeiros@...

614-292-2699

http://www.oardc.osu.edu/5962/Volunteers-Needed-for-Milk-Study-in-Columbus-Woost\

er.htm

Here are some articles written by Lydia Medeiros, the lead researcher:

http://www.netwellness.org/experts/cv.cfm?personid=437

Here is here resume from the university web site:

http://ehe.osu.edu/facstaff/hn.php?name=lydia%20medeiros