Nuns reunite to mark 1967 calcium study
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070425/ap_on_he_me/nuns_study_reunion"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070425/capt.b1e74317b41d4766a5f58fb5a0c109ea.nuns_study_reunion_ah101.jpg?x=130&y=91&sig=tfimKpNyowmsOqhb2EczGw--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Sister Cecelia, left, and Sister Charlene Stuczynski sport milk mustaches at a reunion in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, April 25, 2007. Forty years ago, in 1967, nearly 200 nuns from the Omaha area enrolled in the study run by Creighton University researcher Dr. Robert Heaney. 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. On Wednesday, about 30 nuns reunited to mark the 40th anniversary of the study.(AP Photo/Nati Harnik)" border="0" /></a>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.</p><br clear="all"/>

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