Lori Van Horn spent a restful 24 hours Friday inside a room that from the outside looks like a cruise ship cabin.
Van Horn, of Mint Hill, is a participant in a metabolism study being conducted at the UNC-Chapel Hill Nutrition Research Institute, at the North Carolina Research Campus.
Dr. Andrew Swick, associate professor and director of Obesity and Eating Disorders Research at the University of North Carolina Research Institute, is heading the study. Stephen Orena, a lab manager and a research associate in the Swick lab, runs the study.
The study hopes to measure the effect of a commercially available water, ASEA (pronounced ah-see-ah), on a person’s metabolic rate and the amount of fat that is burned. Participants drink two 4-ounce portions of the water — one in the morning and the other before bed.
“Some of our greatest health challenges today stem from obesity and the obesity-related diseases. The metabolic chamber is unique because it allows us to precisely measure how a person’s metabolism is affected by what a person eats, such as the compounds found in ASEA water,” Swick said.
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