Sugar Land native Isabella Wu, a 19-year-old freshman at Rice University, is one of just 30 students worldwide selected as a semifinalist in the prestigious Breakthrough Junior Challenge, a global science competition.
To reach this stage, Wu created a video explaining how the hormone leptin regulates hunger – and how ignoring the body’s fullness cues contributes to obesity. The topic is especially timely as the holiday season encourages eating in abundance. Wu’s video can be viewed at youtube.com/watch?v=_b37w-gVfTo.
“I was really interested in nutrition growing up, and I wanted to find a video topic that was applicable to everyone,” she said. “I was thinking about different questions that people kind of think of on a daily basis, like ‘why does everyone feel full?’ It’s actually due to a hormone called leptin.”…