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Body clocks and the shifting risks of stroke
Health care professionals, we’re sure, are no strangers to rotating shifts. And, as practitioners of the shiftly arts, you should know new research shows that working those kinds of hours can have lasting effects on your health. And it’s all based on your sleep-wake cycle.
In a study published in Neurobiology of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms, investigators at Texas A&M University looked at the effects of working these kinds of shifts for a long period of time and then returning to a regular 24-hour cycle later in life. The study piggybacks on a previous study, which showed that rats on shift schedules had more severe stroke outcomes than those who were on a 24-hour cycle.
The current study demonstrates that working rotating shifts does have a lasting effect, by way of messing with the sleep-wake cycle. Based on the research, the rats that performed those kinds of shifts never got back to a normal schedule. When strokes occurred, outcomes were much worse, and the females had a higher mortality rate and more severe functional deficits than the males.
Now for the “good” news: Even if you’re among those who haven’t worked a rotating shift, you may not be safe either.
People who have regular working hours have a tendency to take work home and stay up late, especially with so many moving to a remote-work model. And if you’re staying up late on the weekends you’re producing what lead author David J. Earnest, PhD, called “social jet lag,” which messes with your circadian rhythm to wind you down for sleep. All of these things can lead to the same kind of effects that working rotating shifts has on your health, he said in a written statement.
How do you combat this? Dr. Earnest recommended creating a sleep schedule and setting regular mealtimes. Also ease up on high-fat foods, drinking, and smoking. The connection between your brain and gut also could play a part in how severe a stroke can be.
So continue to work hard, but not too hard.
Got 3 minutes? You got time for culture
Much like a Krabby Patty, art is good for your soul. Seriously, staring at a 500-year-old painting may not seem like much, but research has proven time and again that going to a museum and looking at paintings by long-dead artists you probably know better as pizza-eating superhero turtles improves mood, stress, and well-being.
A couple of years ago, however, museums and art galleries ran into a big virus-shaped problem. You may have heard of it. All of a sudden it became a very bad idea for people to gather together in one building and huddle around the Mona Lisa, which, by the way, is a lot smaller in person than you might expect. But, rather than sit around with a bunch of priceless art for an indeterminate amount of time, museums brought their exhibits to the Internet so that people from all over the world could see great works from their couches.
This is absolutely a good thing for public access, but do these virtual art exhibits provide the same health benefits as going to a museum in person? That’s what a group of European researchers aimed to find out, and in a study published in Frontiers of Psychology, that’s exactly what they found.
Their directive to the 84 study participants was simple: Take a well-being survey, engage with either of a pair of online exhibits (a Monet painting and a display of Japanese culinary traditions) for just 3 minutes, then take another well-being assessment. The results were quite clear: Even just a couple of minutes of viewing art online improved all the well-being categories on the survey, such as lowering anxiety, negative mood, and loneliness, as well as increasing subjective well-being. Also, the more beautiful or meaningful a person found the art, the more their mood and well-being improved.
The researchers noted that these results could help access in places where access to art is limited, such as waiting rooms, hospitals, and rural areas. Let’s just hope it sticks to that, and that big businesses don’t take notice. Just imagine them plastering ads with classic Renaissance artworks. After all, art makes you feel good, and you know what else feels good on a hot summer day? An ice-cold Coca-Cola! By the way, we’re taking offers, advertising agencies. The LOTME staff can absolutely be bought.
Appetite for etymology
Today on “It’s a Thing,” we examine various states of hunger and what they should be called. Our first guest is that historically hungry royal person, King Henry VIII of England. Your majesty, have you ever been “hangry?”
KH8: First, let me thank you for inviting me on the show, Maurice. I’m a huge fan. A recent study done in the United Kingdom and Austria showed that “hunger is associated with greater levels of anger and irritability, as well as lower levels of pleasure,” according to a Eurekalert statement. So, yes, I have been “hangry.”
Maurice: Now to our next guest. Martha Stewart, can you add anything about that study?
Martha: Happy to, Maurice. The 64 participants used a smartphone app to record their hunger levels and emotional states five times a day for 21 days. It’s the first time that “hanger” was studied outside a lab, and it showed that hunger “was associated with 37% of the variance in irritability, 34% of the variance in anger, and 38% of the variance in pleasure recorded by the participants,” the investigators said in that statement.
Maurice: It’s official, then. Hangry is a thing, and we don’t need to put it in quotes anymore. Now let’s meet our third and final guest, Betty Crocker. Betty, I’m told you have a study to plug.
Betty: That’s right, Mo. Researchers at Tel Aviv University looked at survey data from almost 3,000 men and women and found that men ate 17% more food during the warmer months (March to September) than they did the rest of the year. Among women, however, caloric intake did not change.
KH8: I saw that study. Didn’t they put 27 people out in the sun and then take blood samples?
Betty: Indeed they did, Hank. After 25 minutes of sun exposure, the 13 men felt hungrier than before, but the 14 women did not. The men also had higher levels of ghrelin, an appetite-stimulating hormone, than the women.
Maurice: To sum all this up, then, we’ve got angry and hungry officially combining to make hangry, and now it looks like the sun is causing hunger in men, which makes them … sungry?
Martha: It’s a thing.
Chicken cutlets with a side of COVID
You stopped at the drive through at McDonald’s on the way home from work, and while you’re looking for something sweet in the refrigerator for dessert, you see that chicken breast that expires today.
Freezing meat that’s about to expire might be your go-to so it doesn’t go to waste, but it’s been found that SARS-CoV-2 can live in meat that’s been in the refrigerator or freezer for more than a month.
Researchers exposed chicken, beef, pork, and salmon to surrogate viruses that are similar to COVID but not as harmful and stored them in freezers at –4° F and in the refrigerator at 39.2° F. “We even found that the viruses could be cultured after [being frozen for] that length of time,” lead author Emily Bailey, PhD, of Campbell University in Buies Creek, N.C., said in Study Finds.
The team began its research after hearing of COVID-19 outbreaks where there were no reports of community transmission, such as in Southeast Asia. Tracing eventually led to packaged meats as the culprits in those cases. SARS-CoV-2 is able to replicate in the gut, as well as the respiratory tract, so it could affect the gut before respiratory symptoms start. It is crucial to ensure cross contamination doesn’t occur, and inadequate sanitation prior to packaging needs to be addressed, the investigators said.
Honestly, we didn’t think anything could survive in a freezer for that long, but SARS-CoV-2 is a fighter.
Body clocks and the shifting risks of stroke
Health care professionals, we’re sure, are no strangers to rotating shifts. And, as practitioners of the shiftly arts, you should know new research shows that working those kinds of hours can have lasting effects on your health. And it’s all based on your sleep-wake cycle.
In a study published in Neurobiology of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms, investigators at Texas A&M University looked at the effects of working these kinds of shifts for a long period of time and then returning to a regular 24-hour cycle later in life. The study piggybacks on a previous study, which showed that rats on shift schedules had more severe stroke outcomes than those who were on a 24-hour cycle.
The current study demonstrates that working rotating shifts does have a lasting effect, by way of messing with the sleep-wake cycle. Based on the research, the rats that performed those kinds of shifts never got back to a normal schedule. When strokes occurred, outcomes were much worse, and the females had a higher mortality rate and more severe functional deficits than the males.
Now for the “good” news: Even if you’re among those who haven’t worked a rotating shift, you may not be safe either.
People who have regular working hours have a tendency to take work home and stay up late, especially with so many moving to a remote-work model. And if you’re staying up late on the weekends you’re producing what lead author David J. Earnest, PhD, called “social jet lag,” which messes with your circadian rhythm to wind you down for sleep. All of these things can lead to the same kind of effects that working rotating shifts has on your health, he said in a written statement.
How do you combat this? Dr. Earnest recommended creating a sleep schedule and setting regular mealtimes. Also ease up on high-fat foods, drinking, and smoking. The connection between your brain and gut also could play a part in how severe a stroke can be.
So continue to work hard, but not too hard.
Got 3 minutes? You got time for culture
Much like a Krabby Patty, art is good for your soul. Seriously, staring at a 500-year-old painting may not seem like much, but research has proven time and again that going to a museum and looking at paintings by long-dead artists you probably know better as pizza-eating superhero turtles improves mood, stress, and well-being.
A couple of years ago, however, museums and art galleries ran into a big virus-shaped problem. You may have heard of it. All of a sudden it became a very bad idea for people to gather together in one building and huddle around the Mona Lisa, which, by the way, is a lot smaller in person than you might expect. But, rather than sit around with a bunch of priceless art for an indeterminate amount of time, museums brought their exhibits to the Internet so that people from all over the world could see great works from their couches.
This is absolutely a good thing for public access, but do these virtual art exhibits provide the same health benefits as going to a museum in person? That’s what a group of European researchers aimed to find out, and in a study published in Frontiers of Psychology, that’s exactly what they found.
Their directive to the 84 study participants was simple: Take a well-being survey, engage with either of a pair of online exhibits (a Monet painting and a display of Japanese culinary traditions) for just 3 minutes, then take another well-being assessment. The results were quite clear: Even just a couple of minutes of viewing art online improved all the well-being categories on the survey, such as lowering anxiety, negative mood, and loneliness, as well as increasing subjective well-being. Also, the more beautiful or meaningful a person found the art, the more their mood and well-being improved.
The researchers noted that these results could help access in places where access to art is limited, such as waiting rooms, hospitals, and rural areas. Let’s just hope it sticks to that, and that big businesses don’t take notice. Just imagine them plastering ads with classic Renaissance artworks. After all, art makes you feel good, and you know what else feels good on a hot summer day? An ice-cold Coca-Cola! By the way, we’re taking offers, advertising agencies. The LOTME staff can absolutely be bought.
Appetite for etymology
Today on “It’s a Thing,” we examine various states of hunger and what they should be called. Our first guest is that historically hungry royal person, King Henry VIII of England. Your majesty, have you ever been “hangry?”
KH8: First, let me thank you for inviting me on the show, Maurice. I’m a huge fan. A recent study done in the United Kingdom and Austria showed that “hunger is associated with greater levels of anger and irritability, as well as lower levels of pleasure,” according to a Eurekalert statement. So, yes, I have been “hangry.”
Maurice: Now to our next guest. Martha Stewart, can you add anything about that study?
Martha: Happy to, Maurice. The 64 participants used a smartphone app to record their hunger levels and emotional states five times a day for 21 days. It’s the first time that “hanger” was studied outside a lab, and it showed that hunger “was associated with 37% of the variance in irritability, 34% of the variance in anger, and 38% of the variance in pleasure recorded by the participants,” the investigators said in that statement.
Maurice: It’s official, then. Hangry is a thing, and we don’t need to put it in quotes anymore. Now let’s meet our third and final guest, Betty Crocker. Betty, I’m told you have a study to plug.
Betty: That’s right, Mo. Researchers at Tel Aviv University looked at survey data from almost 3,000 men and women and found that men ate 17% more food during the warmer months (March to September) than they did the rest of the year. Among women, however, caloric intake did not change.
KH8: I saw that study. Didn’t they put 27 people out in the sun and then take blood samples?
Betty: Indeed they did, Hank. After 25 minutes of sun exposure, the 13 men felt hungrier than before, but the 14 women did not. The men also had higher levels of ghrelin, an appetite-stimulating hormone, than the women.
Maurice: To sum all this up, then, we’ve got angry and hungry officially combining to make hangry, and now it looks like the sun is causing hunger in men, which makes them … sungry?
Martha: It’s a thing.
Chicken cutlets with a side of COVID
You stopped at the drive through at McDonald’s on the way home from work, and while you’re looking for something sweet in the refrigerator for dessert, you see that chicken breast that expires today.
Freezing meat that’s about to expire might be your go-to so it doesn’t go to waste, but it’s been found that SARS-CoV-2 can live in meat that’s been in the refrigerator or freezer for more than a month.
Researchers exposed chicken, beef, pork, and salmon to surrogate viruses that are similar to COVID but not as harmful and stored them in freezers at –4° F and in the refrigerator at 39.2° F. “We even found that the viruses could be cultured after [being frozen for] that length of time,” lead author Emily Bailey, PhD, of Campbell University in Buies Creek, N.C., said in Study Finds.
The team began its research after hearing of COVID-19 outbreaks where there were no reports of community transmission, such as in Southeast Asia. Tracing eventually led to packaged meats as the culprits in those cases. SARS-CoV-2 is able to replicate in the gut, as well as the respiratory tract, so it could affect the gut before respiratory symptoms start. It is crucial to ensure cross contamination doesn’t occur, and inadequate sanitation prior to packaging needs to be addressed, the investigators said.
Honestly, we didn’t think anything could survive in a freezer for that long, but SARS-CoV-2 is a fighter.
Body clocks and the shifting risks of stroke
Health care professionals, we’re sure, are no strangers to rotating shifts. And, as practitioners of the shiftly arts, you should know new research shows that working those kinds of hours can have lasting effects on your health. And it’s all based on your sleep-wake cycle.
In a study published in Neurobiology of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms, investigators at Texas A&M University looked at the effects of working these kinds of shifts for a long period of time and then returning to a regular 24-hour cycle later in life. The study piggybacks on a previous study, which showed that rats on shift schedules had more severe stroke outcomes than those who were on a 24-hour cycle.
The current study demonstrates that working rotating shifts does have a lasting effect, by way of messing with the sleep-wake cycle. Based on the research, the rats that performed those kinds of shifts never got back to a normal schedule. When strokes occurred, outcomes were much worse, and the females had a higher mortality rate and more severe functional deficits than the males.
Now for the “good” news: Even if you’re among those who haven’t worked a rotating shift, you may not be safe either.
People who have regular working hours have a tendency to take work home and stay up late, especially with so many moving to a remote-work model. And if you’re staying up late on the weekends you’re producing what lead author David J. Earnest, PhD, called “social jet lag,” which messes with your circadian rhythm to wind you down for sleep. All of these things can lead to the same kind of effects that working rotating shifts has on your health, he said in a written statement.
How do you combat this? Dr. Earnest recommended creating a sleep schedule and setting regular mealtimes. Also ease up on high-fat foods, drinking, and smoking. The connection between your brain and gut also could play a part in how severe a stroke can be.
So continue to work hard, but not too hard.
Got 3 minutes? You got time for culture
Much like a Krabby Patty, art is good for your soul. Seriously, staring at a 500-year-old painting may not seem like much, but research has proven time and again that going to a museum and looking at paintings by long-dead artists you probably know better as pizza-eating superhero turtles improves mood, stress, and well-being.
A couple of years ago, however, museums and art galleries ran into a big virus-shaped problem. You may have heard of it. All of a sudden it became a very bad idea for people to gather together in one building and huddle around the Mona Lisa, which, by the way, is a lot smaller in person than you might expect. But, rather than sit around with a bunch of priceless art for an indeterminate amount of time, museums brought their exhibits to the Internet so that people from all over the world could see great works from their couches.
This is absolutely a good thing for public access, but do these virtual art exhibits provide the same health benefits as going to a museum in person? That’s what a group of European researchers aimed to find out, and in a study published in Frontiers of Psychology, that’s exactly what they found.
Their directive to the 84 study participants was simple: Take a well-being survey, engage with either of a pair of online exhibits (a Monet painting and a display of Japanese culinary traditions) for just 3 minutes, then take another well-being assessment. The results were quite clear: Even just a couple of minutes of viewing art online improved all the well-being categories on the survey, such as lowering anxiety, negative mood, and loneliness, as well as increasing subjective well-being. Also, the more beautiful or meaningful a person found the art, the more their mood and well-being improved.
The researchers noted that these results could help access in places where access to art is limited, such as waiting rooms, hospitals, and rural areas. Let’s just hope it sticks to that, and that big businesses don’t take notice. Just imagine them plastering ads with classic Renaissance artworks. After all, art makes you feel good, and you know what else feels good on a hot summer day? An ice-cold Coca-Cola! By the way, we’re taking offers, advertising agencies. The LOTME staff can absolutely be bought.
Appetite for etymology
Today on “It’s a Thing,” we examine various states of hunger and what they should be called. Our first guest is that historically hungry royal person, King Henry VIII of England. Your majesty, have you ever been “hangry?”
KH8: First, let me thank you for inviting me on the show, Maurice. I’m a huge fan. A recent study done in the United Kingdom and Austria showed that “hunger is associated with greater levels of anger and irritability, as well as lower levels of pleasure,” according to a Eurekalert statement. So, yes, I have been “hangry.”
Maurice: Now to our next guest. Martha Stewart, can you add anything about that study?
Martha: Happy to, Maurice. The 64 participants used a smartphone app to record their hunger levels and emotional states five times a day for 21 days. It’s the first time that “hanger” was studied outside a lab, and it showed that hunger “was associated with 37% of the variance in irritability, 34% of the variance in anger, and 38% of the variance in pleasure recorded by the participants,” the investigators said in that statement.
Maurice: It’s official, then. Hangry is a thing, and we don’t need to put it in quotes anymore. Now let’s meet our third and final guest, Betty Crocker. Betty, I’m told you have a study to plug.
Betty: That’s right, Mo. Researchers at Tel Aviv University looked at survey data from almost 3,000 men and women and found that men ate 17% more food during the warmer months (March to September) than they did the rest of the year. Among women, however, caloric intake did not change.
KH8: I saw that study. Didn’t they put 27 people out in the sun and then take blood samples?
Betty: Indeed they did, Hank. After 25 minutes of sun exposure, the 13 men felt hungrier than before, but the 14 women did not. The men also had higher levels of ghrelin, an appetite-stimulating hormone, than the women.
Maurice: To sum all this up, then, we’ve got angry and hungry officially combining to make hangry, and now it looks like the sun is causing hunger in men, which makes them … sungry?
Martha: It’s a thing.
Chicken cutlets with a side of COVID
You stopped at the drive through at McDonald’s on the way home from work, and while you’re looking for something sweet in the refrigerator for dessert, you see that chicken breast that expires today.
Freezing meat that’s about to expire might be your go-to so it doesn’t go to waste, but it’s been found that SARS-CoV-2 can live in meat that’s been in the refrigerator or freezer for more than a month.
Researchers exposed chicken, beef, pork, and salmon to surrogate viruses that are similar to COVID but not as harmful and stored them in freezers at –4° F and in the refrigerator at 39.2° F. “We even found that the viruses could be cultured after [being frozen for] that length of time,” lead author Emily Bailey, PhD, of Campbell University in Buies Creek, N.C., said in Study Finds.
The team began its research after hearing of COVID-19 outbreaks where there were no reports of community transmission, such as in Southeast Asia. Tracing eventually led to packaged meats as the culprits in those cases. SARS-CoV-2 is able to replicate in the gut, as well as the respiratory tract, so it could affect the gut before respiratory symptoms start. It is crucial to ensure cross contamination doesn’t occur, and inadequate sanitation prior to packaging needs to be addressed, the investigators said.
Honestly, we didn’t think anything could survive in a freezer for that long, but SARS-CoV-2 is a fighter.
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And, as practitioners of the shiftly arts, you should know new research shows that working those kinds of hours can have lasting effects on your health. And it’s all based on your sleep-wake cycle. </p> <p>[[{"fid":"284896","view_mode":"medstat_image_flush_right","fields":{"format":"medstat_image_flush_right","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Two clocks","field_file_image_credit[und][0][value]":"Wildpixel/thinkstockphotos.com","field_file_image_caption[und][0][value]":""},"type":"media","attributes":{"class":"media-element file-medstat_image_flush_right"}}]]In a study published in <span class="Hyperlink"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451994422000050?via%3Dihub">Neurobiology of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms</a></span>, investigators at Texas A&M University looked at the effects of working these kinds of shifts for a long period of time and then returning to a regular 24-hour cycle later in life. The study piggybacks on a <span class="Hyperlink"><a href="https://academic.oup.com/endo/article/157/7/2836/2422905?login=false">previous study</a></span>, which showed that rats on shift schedules had more severe stroke outcomes than those who were on a 24-hour cycle.<br/><br/>The current study demonstrates that working rotating shifts does have a lasting effect, by way of messing with the sleep-wake cycle. Based on the research, the rats that performed those kinds of shifts never got back to a normal schedule. When strokes occurred, outcomes were much worse, and the females had a higher mortality rate and more severe functional deficits than the males. <br/><br/>Now for the “good” news: Even if you’re among those who haven’t worked a rotating shift, you may not be safe either. <br/><br/>People who have regular working hours have a tendency to take work home and stay up late, especially with so many moving to a remote-work model. And if you’re staying up late on the weekends you’re producing what lead author David J. Earnest, PhD, called “social jet lag,” which messes with your circadian rhythm to wind you down for sleep. All of these things can lead to the same kind of effects that working rotating shifts has on your health, he <span class="Hyperlink"><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/958594">said in a written statement</a></span>. <br/><br/>How do you combat this? Dr. Earnest recommended creating a sleep schedule and setting regular mealtimes. Also ease up on high-fat foods, drinking, and smoking. The connection between your brain and gut also could play a part in how severe a stroke can be. <br/><br/>So continue to work hard, but not too hard.</p> <h2>Got 3 minutes? You got time for culture</h2> <p>Much like a <span class="Hyperlink"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RyEUzaLo2E">Krabby Patty</a></span>, art is good for your soul. Seriously, staring at a 500-year-old painting may not seem like much, but research has proven time and again that going to a museum and looking at paintings by long-dead artists you probably know better as pizza-eating superhero turtles improves mood, stress, and well-being.</p> <p>[[{"fid":"287971","view_mode":"medstat_image_flush_right","fields":{"format":"medstat_image_flush_right","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"The Japanese Footbridge by Claude Monet","field_file_image_credit[und][0][value]":"National Gallery of Art/rawpixel","field_file_image_caption[und][0][value]":""},"type":"media","attributes":{"class":"media-element file-medstat_image_flush_right"}}]]A couple of years ago, however, museums and art galleries ran into a big virus-shaped problem. You may have heard of it. All of a sudden it became a very bad idea for people to gather together in one building and huddle around the Mona Lisa, which, by the way, is a lot smaller in person than you might expect. But, rather than sit around with a bunch of priceless art for an indeterminate amount of time, museums brought their exhibits to the Internet so that people from all over the world could see great works from their couches.<br/><br/>This is absolutely a good thing for public access, but do these virtual art exhibits provide the same health benefits as going to a museum in person? That’s what a group of European researchers <span class="Hyperlink"><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/958286">aimed to find out</a></span>, and in a study published in <span class="Hyperlink"><a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.782033/full">Frontiers of Psychology</a></span>, that’s exactly what they found.<br/><br/>Their directive to the 84 study participants was simple: Take a well-being survey, engage with either of a pair of online exhibits (a Monet painting and a display of Japanese culinary traditions) for just 3 minutes, then take another well-being assessment. The results were quite clear: Even just a couple of minutes of viewing art online improved all the well-being categories on the survey, such as lowering anxiety, negative mood, and loneliness, as well as increasing subjective well-being. Also, the more beautiful or meaningful a person found the art, the more their mood and well-being improved.<br/><br/>The researchers noted that these results could help access in places where access to art is limited, such as waiting rooms, hospitals, and rural areas. Let’s just hope it sticks to that, and that big businesses don’t take notice. Just imagine them plastering ads with classic Renaissance artworks. After all, art makes you feel good, and you know what else feels good on a hot summer day? An ice-cold Coca-Cola! By the way, we’re taking offers, advertising agencies. The LOTME staff can absolutely be bought.</p> <h2>Appetite for etymology</h2> <p>Today on “It’s a Thing,” we examine various states of hunger and what they should be called. Our first guest is that historically hungry royal person, King Henry VIII of England. Your majesty, have you ever been “hangry?”[[{"fid":"287972","view_mode":"medstat_image_flush_left","fields":{"format":"medstat_image_flush_left","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"this broken egg is hangry","field_file_image_credit[und][0][value]":"PxHere","field_file_image_caption[und][0][value]":""},"type":"media","attributes":{"class":"media-element file-medstat_image_flush_left"}}]]</p> <p><strong>KH8:</strong> First, let me thank you for inviting me on the show, Maurice. I’m a huge fan. A recent study done in the United Kingdom and Austria showed that “hunger is associated with greater levels of anger and irritability, as well as lower levels of pleasure,” according to a <span class="Hyperlink"><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/957699?">Eurekalert statement</a></span>. So, yes, I have been “hangry.”<br/><br/><strong>Maurice:</strong> Now to our next guest. Martha Stewart, can you add anything about that study?<br/><br/><strong>Martha:</strong> Happy to, Maurice. The 64 participants used a smartphone app to record their hunger levels and emotional states five times a day for 21 days. It’s the first time that “hanger” was studied outside a lab, and it showed that hunger “was associated with 37% of the variance in irritability, 34% of the variance in anger, and 38% of the variance in pleasure recorded by the participants,” the investigators said in that statement.<br/><br/><strong>Maurice:</strong> It’s official, then. Hangry is a thing, and we don’t need to put it in quotes anymore. Now let’s meet our third and final guest, Betty Crocker. Betty, I’m told you have a study to plug.<br/><br/><strong>Betty:</strong> That’s right, Mo. Researchers at Tel Aviv University <span class="Hyperlink"><a href="https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/sun-exposure-triggers-hunger-in-men-but-not-women-study-suggests-70220">looked at survey data</a></span> from almost 3,000 men and women and found that men ate 17% more food during the warmer months (March to September) than they did the rest of the year. Among women, however, caloric intake did not change.<br/><br/><strong>KH8:</strong> I saw <span class="Hyperlink"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42255-022-00587-9">that study</a></span>. Didn’t they put 27 people out in the sun and then take blood samples?<br/><br/><strong>Betty:</strong> Indeed they did, Hank. After 25 minutes of sun exposure, the 13 men felt hungrier than before, but the 14 women did not. The men also had higher levels of ghrelin, an appetite-stimulating hormone, than the women.<br/><br/><strong>Maurice:</strong> To sum all this up, then, we’ve got angry and hungry officially combining to make hangry, and now it looks like the sun is causing hunger in men, which makes them … sungry?<br/><br/><strong>Martha:</strong> It’s a thing.</p> <h2>Chicken cutlets with a side of COVID</h2> <p>You stopped at the drive through at McDonald’s on the way home from work, and while you’re looking for something sweet in the refrigerator for dessert, you see that chicken breast that expires today.</p> <p>[[{"fid":"287973","view_mode":"medstat_image_flush_right","fields":{"format":"medstat_image_flush_right","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"freezer with frozen food","field_file_image_credit[und][0][value]":"Richard Franki/MDedge News","field_file_image_caption[und][0][value]":""},"type":"media","attributes":{"class":"media-element file-medstat_image_flush_right"}}]]Freezing meat that’s about to expire might be your go-to so it doesn’t go to waste, but it’s been found that SARS-CoV-2 can live in meat that’s been in the refrigerator or freezer for more than a month.<br/><br/>Researchers exposed chicken, beef, pork, and salmon to surrogate viruses that are similar to COVID but not as harmful and stored them in freezers at –4° F and in the refrigerator at 39.2° F. “We even found that the viruses could be cultured after [being frozen for] that length of time,” lead author Emily Bailey, PhD, of Campbell University in Buies Creek, N.C., <span class="Hyperlink"><a href="https://www.studyfinds.org/covid-19-meat-in-freezer-weeks/">said in Study Finds</a></span>.<br/><br/>The team began its research after hearing of COVID-19 outbreaks where there were no reports of community transmission, such as in Southeast Asia. Tracing eventually led to packaged meats as the culprits in those cases. SARS-CoV-2 is able to replicate in the gut, as well as the respiratory tract, so it could affect the gut before respiratory symptoms start. It is crucial to ensure cross contamination doesn’t occur, and inadequate sanitation prior to packaging needs to be addressed, the investigators said.<br/><br/>Honestly, we didn’t think anything could survive in a freezer for that long, but SARS-CoV-2 is a fighter.<span class="end"/></p> </itemContent> </newsItem> <newsItem> <itemMeta> <itemRole>teaser</itemRole> <itemClass>text</itemClass> <title/> <deck/> </itemMeta> <itemContent> </itemContent> </newsItem> </itemSet></root>
