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 OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Sister Suzanne Vandenheede likes tomato soup. The 76-year-old nun from Omaha's Servants of Mary likes it so much she's been known to eat it for lunch every day for a week or more. And when she has, she's practically licked the bowl clean.
Vandenheede's eating habits aren't simply odd; they're part of a long-running study of calcium metabolism that's become known as the Omaha Nuns Study.
Nearly 200 nuns from the Omaha area enrolled in the study that Creighton University researcher Robert Heaney began in 1967. Results gathered over 25 years of in-hospital studies, and later from biyearly checkups, serve as the basis for calcium intake recommendations for adult women.
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