Good's lecture, titled "The Globalization of Technology," is part of the Distinguished Lecture Series on National Policy, and is sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research.
Good is expected to propose federal policies designed to stimulate economic growth, improve scientific and technical education, and maximize universities' contribution to the private sector in advanced and developing nations.
The lecture is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. in the Rackham amphitheater.
"In many cases those who eat the most reduced-fat and non-fat foods actually consume more calories than the people who don't use such products at all," said James Heimbach of TAS Inc., an international food-safety consulting firm that performed the study.
Two groups were used in the test - those who eat reduced-fat foods and those who avoid these items.
The difference in total number of calories per day was slight between the two groups among the general population, but teen-age boys who eat reduced-fat foods had a higher daily caloric consumption than those who did not.
Teen-age boys who reported eating three or more fat-free products consumed 3,772 calories per day on average while those who avoided reduced-fat products only consumed 2,549.
From 1987 to 1994, the number of Americans consuming one or more reduced-fat products daily jumped from 31 to 43 percent.
But despite the increased use of such products, more Americans are overweight today than ever before, as the National Health and Examination Survey reported last year that one in three Americans is overweight.
In the first major study of its kind, researchers tried to find a correlation between bone mineral density and breast cancer in the female hormone estrogen.
A deficient amount of estrogen is associated with a higher risk of osteoporosis and heart disease, while excessive levels of estrogen are believed to increase the risk of breast cancer.
Of a group of 6,854 women aged 65 and older, those who had the highest bone mineral density had about twice the risk of developing breast cancer than the women who had the lowest bone density, according to the study published yesterday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
But chief author of the study, Jane Cauley of the University of Pittsburgh, said it's too soon to draw conclusions.
- Compiled by Daily Staff Reporter Brian Campbell.