National Diabetes Day taking place today
Posted on November 14, 2019 by Melisa Lovos in Features
Melisa Lovos
Chronicle Reporter
The primary world diabetes awareness and education campaign is being held today, Nov. 14- each year. This was first created in 1991 by the International Diabetes Foundation and the World Health Organization to have the people become aware of its prevention as well as its costliness, and to celebrate the fact that insulin was brought as a treatment against it, brought in the year 1992.
Diabetes is a disease that occurs when the blood glucose (or blood sugar) is too high. Insulin, a hormone made by the pancreas, helps the glucose from food to get into the cells and be used for energy. When the cells don’t receive enough glucose, it may result in fatigue and weakness.
“One of the struggles is constantly having to be checking sugar levels, which means constant pinching fingers. And depending on the sugar levels is how urgent the situation is and we have to watch what we eat- what we have at home” says SAS junior, Leslie Rodriguez.
Ways of preventing diabetes, accoring to Heathline.com, include, cutting sugar and refined carbs from your diet, working out regularly, drinking water as a primary beverage, losing weight if overweight or obese, quiting smoking (if smoke), follow a very low carb diet, watch portion sizes, and avoiding sedentary beverages.
While having diabetes is a major health issue, it is clear that it is very time-consuming and costly endeavor, as the economic cost of diabetes globally is around $245 billion (US).
New boy band collaboration makes history
Posted on October 25, 2019 by Melisa Lovos in Entertainment
Melisa Lovos
Chronicle Reporter
Two boy bands of the moment who are rising to fame, PRETTYMUCH and CNCO have released their first collaboration, “Me Necesita” This song, along with the original music video, was out this Wednesday morning, Oct 23. produced by Savan Kotecha.
The American- Canadian and Latin-American boy bands got together and formed a ‘Spanglish bop,’ with beats including reggaeton, pop, and hip-hop. This is the first collaboration between two boy bands, “Actually, I think it’s the first time that any boy band collabs in history. So we can say that we making history.” said CNCO’s Zabdiel De Jesús to ET’s Deidre Behar.
The catchy chorus, “She wants that, I give that, she come back, me necesita.” As the boys sing about a couple who love each other so much that they need each other, both in spanish and english lyrics
The original music video, directed by Isaac Rentz, includes performance, gravity-defying stunts, and crazy dance moves. The video shows PRETTYMUCH- consisting of Brandon Arreaga, Honoret, Austin Porter, Nick Mara, and Zion Kuwonu, and CNCO- consisting of Joel Pimentel, Richard Camacho, Erick Brian Colón and, Christopher Vélez and De Jesús.
“It was incredible, it was fantastic, when I first heard it I wanted to shed a tear. The music video I believe was very good. I like the context and how they mixed both cultures together.” Says SAS Junior, Ingrid Muñiz- Almaguer.
Go to movie night this Friday night
Posted on October 10, 2019 by Melisa Lovos in News
Melisa Lovos
Chronicle Reporter
The first movie night of the year is this Friday, Oct. 11, taking place in room 503, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m., presenting the engaging movie, Twitches.
This halloween related movie portrays the life of two teen witches who were separated at birth, and adopted into two completely different families. They meet on their 21st birthday and find that they must use their discovered powers to save the world in which they were born, where their birth mother still lives.
Bring all your friends and enjoy your Friday afternoon with the entertainment of this iconic movie, delicious popcorn, and snacks- in your pajamas!
