Skip to Main Content
The Student News Site of Beverly Hills High School

Highlights

The Student News Site of Beverly Hills High School

Highlights

Highlights

Photo taken from Healthnews.

Medicine Today: “You are what you eat”

Ruby Matenko, Staff Writer September 16, 2024

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,...

T2D/IR: Student voices and a final summation

Mia Gorlick, Guest Contributor April 18, 2024

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...

T2D and IR: Bioethics, pharmaceutical industry corruption

Mia Gorlick, Guest Contributor April 6, 2024

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...

T2D and IR: SAD, the food pyramid, cafeteria lunches

Mia Gorlick, Guest Contributor April 6, 2024

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...

T2D and IR: Prevention, reversal, lifestyle changes

Mia Gorlick, Guest Contributor April 6, 2024

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...

T2D and IR: Affected anatomy and physiology, the effects of excess carbohydrates and sugar

Mia Gorlick, Guest Contributor April 6, 2024

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 and Insulin Resistance: What it is, warning signs, identifying risk factors

Mia Gorlick, Guest Contributor April 6, 2024

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...

Welcome to A Bite out of Health!

Mia Gorlick, Guest Contributor April 6, 2024

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...

Medicine Today: The disparities between women’s health and men’s; how the two are treated differently

Medicine Today: The disparities between women’s health and men’s; how the two are treated differently

Ruby Matenko, Staff Writer February 27, 2024

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...

Junior Jory Kanaan comforts sophomore Jasmine Mehdizadeh. “Sometimes I just need a friend to be there,” Mehdizadeh said. Photo by: Shayda Dadvand

Students, teachers push through mental health struggles

Shayda Dadvand May 31, 2022

Pariss Chami cub writer Kate Oller cub writer Anabel Serra cub writer Shayda Dadvand cub writer Sophomore Piper Johnson first visited a psychiatrist when she was 12 years old, where she was diagnosed...

We need to expand the discussion of contraception in the curriculum

We need to expand the discussion of contraception in the curriculum

Highlights April 26, 2021

Defne Onal staff writer  When I took health as an elective requirement my freshman year, I remember being utterly dissatisfied with the lesson we had on Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs). I...

A crowd of maskless people push to take pictures with a Christmas tree in Las Vegas over winter break. Image by anonymous junior male.

COVID-19 restrictions violated over winter break

Highlights January 21, 2021

Candice Anvari staff writer Eva Levin copy editor Note: All names (except for Lorena Molina) were changed to protect the privacy of those involved. He hung LED lights on his living room walls....

Load More Stories
Donate to Highlights
$0
$1000
Contributed
Our Goal