Red 40, a common food dye in the United States, is found in a popular spicy snack: Takis. People, particularly youth, enjoy crunching on these bright red chips.
“These dyes can be used in foods...
Heather Godin, the school's health teacher, had her first and second period meet in the EDC building on Mon. 25th to learn hands-only Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
President Les Bronte and Training...
In vitro fertilization. Intrauterine insemination. Donors. Surrogates. Fertility treatments.
These are words that have become more and more common to hear. Infertility has always been a threat to the...
Coffee makes you jittery. Sugar makes you hyper. Protein gives you energy. Too much pasta makes you sluggish. We really are a composition of what we eat. But, why is the food we put in our mouth so important,...
Hello, Normans! Welcome to the seventh and final installment of Take a Bite out of Health.
After all that we have discovered together through this investigative biomedical journey, the time...
When it comes to type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance, pharmaceutical companies are making billions off the drugs that Americans have been prescribed. Any time there is a new medical term coined, new...
Most American children learned about the “food pyramid” in school and it was often used as a guide for our school lunch programs. Since the 1950s, the food pyramid has been heavily weighted at the...
Hey Normans, I have 5 words for you! STAY LEAN AND STAY ACTIVE! But before anyone becomes sensitive to or hurt by the word “lean,” hang on and let me explain.
First and foremost, lean...
No one wants to hear that we should limit our carbs or sugar intake; after all, so much of what we tend to love is pasta, bread, dessert, rice, and everything refined and processed. But when it comes to...
Type 2 diabetes, also known as insulin resistance and prediabetes, affects 1 out of 3 Americans, yet more than 80% of them are unaware that they have it. A 2017 statistic indicated that 451 million people...
Hello, Normans! My name is Mia Gorlick, and I am a senior here at Beverly Hills High School. I am not a formal staff member of Highlights, but I am part of the school’s journalism program through the...
I remember studying male and female reproductive medicine in my medical science class during the last school year. I flipped through the vocabulary terms for the men’s section, and when I went to the...
