Seeing Hungry, Mood & Money, Bad Belly Fat

Saw these three interesting science news. Enjoy.

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Seeing Hungry

“Why does food look more appealing when you are hungry? Scientists are finding that the same chemical in your stomach that causes hunger also changes how your brain perceives food, as this ScienCentral News video explains.“

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Mood and Money

“Feeling sad and bad about ourselves is not only unpleasant — it can also be hard on our wallets. Psychology researchers have found that these emotions can cost you three times more for the same item than being in a better mood, as this ScienCentral News video reports.“

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Bad Belly Fat

“Scientists are finding more about how that bulge around your belly is more harmful than the pounds you may have elsewhere on your body. As this ScienCentral News video reports, belly fat may cause blockages in the arteries, and the finding could lead to better drugs to protect against heart disease.“

Cancer Chip

From ScienCentral (with video),

Thanks to new microfluidics and nanotechnology, cancer doctors may be able to design custom therapies for patients by analyzing just a teaspoon of their blood. Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for Engineering Medicine and its Cancer Center have now shown that they can capture the rare cancer cells shed by tumors into the bloodstream using a new high-tech chip the size of a credit card. Counting and analyzing these wandering tumor cells could mean better early cancer detection and an improved method for monitoring whether treatments are working.

Healthiest dying man in America scuba diving

I just want to see how Prof. Randy Pausch is doing and then I saw these two pictures of him having fun scuba diving on Dec 1st and calling himself in the running for “healthiest dying man in America“. (note: I have previously blogged about his “Last Lecture” and “Time Management” videos and you can check them out.)

With the usual Randy’s sense of humour, he wrote,

When I asked my oncologist if I could go scuba diving, he thought for a while and said, “Medically, I can’t think of any reason you can’t …. but I have to admit, it’s not a question that comes up very often for metastatic pancreatic cancer patients!“

Now, if you are not living life to the fullest, then what the #$%@& are you wasting your life for? Do you think you will live life twice? Or are you thinking you can do it again?