Category Archives: Health

To Keep a Body in Top Form Means Movement

By ALISON BURMEISTER Special to Circling the News   Our bodies are amazing machines. Given the right fuel and proper maintenance we are designed to run for a long time. With the occasional tune up and a yearly “check under...

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UCLA Expert: No Magical Answers for Drug/Alcohol Addiction

“Two Powerful Drugs Now Adding to U.S. Overdose Crisis,” reported the Associated Press in a January 27 story. “Emerging reports show that two little-known drugs are making lethal new contributions to America’s drug overdose crisis. “Para-fluorofentanyl and metonitazene are being...

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New York Times – Update on the Omicron Virus

(Editor’s note: in The Morning, a piece in the New York Times provided interesting reading – January 19, 2022 “Good Morning. Omicron Is in Retreat. What’s Next?” –  Anecdotally, it seems that many people in Pacific Palisades have tested positive...

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Fact’s Two Faces: On Masking of Children at School

By TEDDY MACKER (This December 8 article first appeared in the Front Porch Republic and is reprinted with permission. Macker grew up in Pacific Palisades and is now the administrator of a Waldorf School in Santa Barbara.)    Goleta, CA....

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Celebrate Veterans Day Tomorrow, and Support the Vets at the VA Campus

Veterans Day is a federal holiday as we honor all people who served in the U.S. Armed Forces. World War I ended on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, when the Armistice with Germany went into...

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Palisades Y Executive Marla Ricketts Takes a New Position

Many residents have taken yoga class with Marla Ricketts at the Palisades-Malibu YMCA, but now she’s leaving to pursue a new career path with Elevate Public Affairs. When her two boys were born (now 12 and 14), the native Angelino...

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Quite an Eventful October 8 at Palisades High 

By NOAH ZARET With MARGOT BARRETT Friday, October 8, was indeed a hectic day for PaliHi students. Upon arrival, students were bombarded by a crowd of parents protesting against the student vaccine mandate. They chanted “my child, my choice” in...

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You Have a Covid Shot, But the Flu Shot Is Still Important

Almost 85 percent of Pacific Palisades residents (age 12+) have been vaccinated for Covid 19, but now it’s time to get a flu shot. Flu activity peaks between December and February but can start as early as October and run...

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Vaccination Miscommunication Spreads Fear

The New York Times reported on “The Morning” report of September 7 (“Good morning. We explain the exaggerated fears about breakthrough infections”) that “How small are the chances of the average vaccinated American contracting Covid? Probably about one in 5,000...

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LAUSD and PaliHi Parents Navigate Covid Protocols; Access to Classroom Instruction Sought for Quarantined Students

Although local public schools started just a week ago, parents have already had children sent home/quarantined because of exposure to Covid. At Canyon Elementary, a parent wrote that their child had been exposed to a student who tested positive, and...

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