Posts Tagged ‘ health ’

Here at our school bake sales and junk food are forbidden for health reasons but yet students are not taught healthy eating habits. Health class is not taught here or at many New York City schools. Since health class is not offered, the SPARK, Ms. Hattie Slaughter, at our school decided to incorporates health into Read More »

Everyday someone uses electronics, whether it’s a cell phone, microwave, a T.V., or an iPod. However, very few people are aware of the damages these items are doing to their health. For years now many rumors have been circulating about the dangers of specific electronics, the biggest rumor being that cell phones cause brain cancer. Read More »

With Regents, new schedules, transcript grades, and Valentine’s Day around the corner, which high school student has really been paying attention to what President Obama has been doing these past several weeks? Well, these weeks are also when Obama has been making some very crucial decisions in education reform, particularly concerning former President Bush’s controversial Read More »

Surgery without scalpels and clips, X-ray lasers, and people sliced into hundred of pieces without any harm. Sounds like a sci-fi movie. However, this is all real and happens every day in most hospitals. Our school’s AP Bio class recently visited Bellevue Hospital, one of the largest and oldest public hospitals in the United States, Read More »

It’s been a little less than eight hours since Emely Funes’s school day “ended”. Hopping on the 44 to get home, she stares at her book bag longingly as she walks inside, knowing she has tons of work to do inside her house, not just inside her book bag. Heaving a heavy sigh, she lugs Read More »

Asia Society President Vishakha Desai discusses global issues and other topics with Sesame Street’s Grover. It was a Tuesday night in November, cold and chilly, when the Asia Society honored influential couples who have made an impact on the world. This event took place at the 33rd New York Annual Dinner held at the Waldorf-Astoria Read More »

Senior Vanessa Cucuzza having her blood pressure checked. Photo by Tirath Singh Have you ever thought about giving blood? On November 6th, 2009, the New York Blood Center had a blood drive right here at our school. Ms. Lombardi and her advisory ran the event. The blood drive is held every spring, beginning last year. Read More »

Today many people smoke, from people on the big screen to people you see walking down the street. One may think it is okay to smoke. Wrong! Yes, there are people who smoke that seem healthy, but eventually the diseases and possibly early death will catch up with them. So, a word of advice, don’t Read More »

You may or may not have read Volume 3, Issue 4 of the Insider, but if you at least flipped the pages, chances are you noticed the headline “Let’s Talk About Sex.” We may not flinch from mentioning the unmentionables, but our school’s still short on sexual education. Twenty two US states, plus DC, mandate Read More »

More and more people have been converting from Catholicism to atheism in the last year. An extensive new survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life showed that about 10% of the United States population is atheist. Boston Area Coalition of Reason has been putting advertisements for atheism on subway stations in New Read More »