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Highlights

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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...

ASB hosts “Love is Blind,” where senior Saba Taheri finds her match.

ASB holds Valentine’s event at lunch

Shayda Dadvand, Editor in Cheif February 14, 2023

On Valentine’s Day--Tuesday, Feb. 14-- ASB held a lunch event on the second-floor patio to celebrate love, the Beverly way.    Throughout lunch, ASB members passed out candy and red beaded...

Students wait in line to go into the cafeteria. “I love that the lunches are free now since it speeds up the process of getting my lunch,” senior Jennifer Li said.

Lunch waiting time cut in half, students and administrators adjust to new program

Highlights September 30, 2021

Defne Onal managing editor Gina Toore staff writer During their breaks, students wait in a long line that extends outside of the cafeteria.  All public high schools in California have the option...

Photo courtesy of Tohar Zamir, Francis Palacio, DECA and Catherine Gagulashvili

Prominent clubs on campus organize to meet

Highlights September 17, 2019

Staff-wide contribution Below is a list of most of the clubs on campus, information for their meetings and what each club is most looking forward to in the upcoming school year.   DECA President:...

Trash piles up after lunch

Trash piles up after lunch

Highlights September 10, 2014

Sadie Hersh, staff writer The trash problem returned with the start of the 2014-2015 school year. When the lunch bell rings, students gather on the patios and lawn and chow down. By the time the closing...

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