Theyre not. Just so were all on the same page, what are ecigarettes . I believe ecigarettes are electronic cigarettes. Correct. Sometimes referred to as a vape pen, there are three parts to an ecigarette. The vaporizer thats a tiny heating device. Theres the battery it powers the heating device. And then theres the cartridge. This holds the liquid that is heated, giving off a vapor that looks like smoke. An ecigarette is like a cleaner version of a cigarette. I think its with water vapor. Actually, its not. Many experts believe the vapor contains dangerous chemicals including Propylene Glycol which is often used in antifreeze put in cars. Right now, the marketplace for ecigarettes is really the wild, wild west. We dont know whats in the vapor. We dont know what the risks of the vapor are. Mitch zeller works for the federal government. He says that what we do know is that ecigarettes contain nicotine. No young person should be starting to use any of these products. Nicotine is addictive. And nicotine can have adverse effects on Brain Development and the adolescent brain is still developing. Our brains are not fully formed until were in our 20s. I think ecigarettes are worse for teenagers than regular cigarettes because ecigarettes give you a false sense of security. You tend to think, oh, theyre safer. Its just the nicotine and not all those other chemicals. But really, the nicotine is what hooks you, what gets you addicted to smoking. What no doubt confuses many teens is that they hear that adults use ecigarettes as a supposedly healthier alternative to smoking. And i think its meant as a way for people to quit smoking so its not as addictive as real cigarettes. And that is how the Tobacco Companies are starting to market ecigarettes, as a way to get you to stop smoking. But as weve heard, ecigarettes still have nicotine, so dont make the mistake of believing theyre safe. And we are concerned because ecigarette usage amongst middleschool and highschoolage kids is going up, and going up dramatically. I think teens smoke ecigarettes rather than regular cigarettes, well, for a couple of reasons. Maybe because they think theyre safer, one. And the way theyre advertised you know what im saying, they might look cooler. Probably from peer pressure just to look cool. I just think people, like see other people doing it, and thats why they do them so much. Adding to the attraction is the fact that ecigarettes can come in different flavors. For example, they can be made to taste like fruit or even candy. I think ecigarettes come in different flavors to appeal to more people than just normal cigarettes do. I guess to be more appealing to teens. To make them think that, oh yay, this is something new to try. By the way, if you already smoke, changing to vaping is not the best way to quit. Ecigarettes should not be used as a method to stop smoking. There are other, better ways that can be used under a doctors care to help curb the smoking craving. Theres a lot we still dont know about ecigarettes, and thats why the government wants to control their sale just like the sale of regular cigarettes is controlled. But one thing is for sure ecigarettes are no match for a healthy lifestyle. And if you do smoke and you want to quit, you can call 1800quitnow. They even have a special program just for teens. When we return, ill show you why wikipedia may be a more reliable source than our teachers think. Teen kids news will be right back. The internet is a terrific tool, especially for schoolwork. But can you trust that the information youre finding is accurate . Christina looks at how one popular but controversial website works. [ keys clacking ] like most teens, roman comes home after school and heads straight for his computer. But unlike most teens, roman isnt checking out facebook or email. His first stop online is wikipedia, the website where you can find information on just about anything. I believe i was about 13 or 14 years old when i first began editing wikipedia. Thats right roman is a contributor to wikipedia, and thats whats special about the website it depends on volunteers to add or edit material. I first started out by editing a few articles randomly, making a few grammatical adjustments, maybe a spelling change here or there. The word wikipedia is a blend of two other words. A wiki is a website where anyone can add or edit content, and pedia comes from encyclopedia. Thats why wikipedia calls itself the free encyclopedia anyone can edit. Youve heard of h. G. Wells, the great sciencefiction author, he actually had an idea back in the 30s called the world brain, which was a worldwide encyclopedia organization whose whole purpose was to collect and classify and sort the information of the world. And wikipedia is sort of a realization of that on a volunteer, internetdistributed basis. Richard knipel leads the new york chapter of wikipedia editors. Worldwide, there are nearly 100,000 editors who contribute to the site. And that brings up the controversy around wikipedia. Traditional reference works use experts who are usually paid to contribute and edit content. But wikipedia depends on volunteers, and these can be ordinary people, even kids. So does that make it more likely that wikipedia will have wrong information . Everything is based on other things that have been published. That have been published in what we call reliable sources. Just like in any Research Paper youre writing, in any highschool Research Paper, you have to include a reference to the source that you have of the information that youre contributing. Those sources are listed in the bibliography at the end of every article. In addition, the site uses computers to monitor each new edit. In fact, wikipedia says most errors are corrected within five seconds. Wikipedia is generally reliable, but you have to keep in mind that there are points at which people can mess up. Thats why many teachers dont let their students cite wikipedia as a source for Research Papers. I know when i do Research Papers, im not allowed to because it has all different resources and stuff. So, like, its a bunch of different people, and its not like, a real source, i guess. Thats what my teachers say. Its not legit. You cant really use it. Anyone can go on and put an article on wikipedia. But listen to this according to a study published in the respected magazine nature wikipedia was almost as accurate as the prestigious encyclopedia britannica. Of course, were not saying to disregard your teachers. But if you are allowed to use wikipedia, heres an important tip. The idea is that, use it as a first point of research, and always look at the articles logs and everything before you actually trust the information. Which is what most people dont do. If youre interested in helping to improve wikipedia you might want to join the team. Just get your hands dirty. Start fixing spelling. Start fixing grammar everywhere you see a mistake. Theres a big edit button on the top of every page, and just click it and go for it. By the way, using volunteer contributors is not really new. In the late 1800s, thousands of volunteers contributed to a similar project the creation of the Oxford English dictionary. And look how well that turned out. Ill tell you how this position could help you do better on tests. Teen kids news will be right back. Few of us love taking tests. But some of us actually dread test taking so much, our stress causes us to do less well than we should. Helping to overcome that test anxiety is the subject of todays yoga you report. Heres emily. So, brenda, how can yoga help me overcome the stress i face before taking a big test . When you have stress from a test, test anxiety, you can lose your concentration and your focus. So to overcome that, you can do a pose such as this. You step forward. Okay. And then roll the shoulders back. Open the chest. Open those arms up. Take a deep breath. And exhale. And bring those hands back together. Very nice. Another thing that happens when you have test anxiety is you feel ungrounded. So another great pose to do is downwardfacing dog. So, we come down onto the mat, hands forward. Walk those feet back a little bit. This builds strength as well as calms the mind because its an inversion, so its a very calming effect because the heart is above the head. And then we can come on down. So, this was downward dog. And what was the first one called . Its a variation of the warrior one position. All right. Very nice. Well, i feel really good, and im definitely ready to tackle those tests. [ laughs ] thank you so much, brenda. Youre welcome. With yoga you, im emily. [ bat clunks, crowd cheers ] ever wonder how the seventhinning stretch came about . Well, former president William Howard taft was a very big baseball fan. One time when he was at a game he stood up in the middle of the seventh inning, and everyone around his stood up in respect. And the rest is history. Im matt for teen kids news. Americans spend 11 billion a year on bottled water. Making the plastic for all those bottles burns up Something Like 1. 5 Million Barrels of oil. And 9 out of 10 plastic bottles arent even recycled. They end up in the trash. Whats weird is that were lucky enough to live in a country where water from the tap is usually cheap and clean. In fact, the government is testing public Water Supplies much more often than it checks bottling plants. So that throwaway bottle of water might be convenient, but environmentalists say it doesnt make a lot of sense. What does make sense is getting a plastic bottle you can refill and reuse. Its something we do every day. In fact, were supposed to do it a number of times a day. And yet many of us just dont do it right. So we assigned jacelyn to brush up on the correct way to use a toothbrush. Okay, america. How do you brush your teeth . You brush your teeth in circles. I, like, put the toothbrush in my mouth, and i just scrub for about five minutes. And then i rinse, and then i floss. Well, i put toothpaste on my toothbrush, and i just scrub in my mouth. So, whats the correct technique . Well find out from an expert. Dr. Gerry curatola has literally written the book on dental care. Hes from the college of dentistry at new york university. Hi. Hi. Thanks for having me. Our pleasure. So, tell us, what is the best way to brush teeth . Well, brushing is simply not a scrubbing motion. Were not scrubbing back and forth. What were really doing is sweeping. Its a sweeping motion. Hold your toothbrush at a 45degree angle, move back and forth gently, and sweep down. Start with the back and the outside of the front, upper right, and upper left sides. Dont forget the tops. And on the inside, the same thing. Its a gentle motion. Remember, youre not scrubbing the floor. Youre sweeping. And so, at a 45degree angle, go all the way around. Dont forget those areas on the inside of your teeth. And if you brush on your palate, it may tickle a little bit. But if you do it frequently, that sensation will go away. So, is it better to scrub really, really hard to get your teeth as clean as possible . Scrubbing really hard can actually do damage. You can wear the enamel of your teeth, and there are gum fibers that connect where the tooth meets the gum, and those can cause some gum recession. So never, ever brush too hard back and forth at the gum line. What you really want to do is go gently toward the gum at a 45degree angle and sweep down. So, how long should you brush . Oh, thats the magic question. Most people dont brush long enough. We really recommend the best way to make sure youre brushing long enough is to get a little twominute egg timer. Two minutes is the right time. And how many times a day should we brush . We recommend you brush morning and night. If you have a sticky, sugary meal, its good to brush after a meal like that. But morning and night is sufficient. What about those brushes that come with motors . Are those any good . Well, those help if you have trouble handling a toothbrush in your mouth. They can help with people who have special needs, or those who dont enjoy brushing themselves manually alone. So, they can be helpful. I always knew that sweets like chocolate were bad for our teeth, but i was surprised to learn that some healthy snacks like raisins, can be even worse. Raisins, even though its a natural, dried fruit, are loaded with sugar. And theyre sticky, and they get into crevices in the teeth and can actually cause more cavities than a piece of dark chocolate. As a matter of fact, weve recently discovered that there are enzymes in dark chocolate that has low sugar that can actually prevent cavities. Wow. Chocolate that can prevent cavities . Love it. Doc, thank you so much for joining us today. Youre welcome. Thanks again. A wise man had this clever saying about good dental care if youre true to your teeth, theyll never be false to you. Words to live by. Coming up, one of the hottest trends in the kitchen is the mini pie. Ill tell you about that when teen kids news returns. You fill up my senses like a night in a forest like the mountains in springtime like a sleepy blue ocean you fill up my senses come fill me again come let me love you let me always be with you come let me love you come love me again they say that good things often come in small packages. As katie reports, thats also true when it comes to baking. And when it comes to pies big or small, Elizabeth Jean is an expert. So, what makes mini pies so popular . Well, katie, whats great about mini pies, theyre fast, fun, and easy. Theyre that perfect grabandgo snack for lunch or after school. So, thats why theyre really popular. Theyre just the perfect size. So, what were gonna do is, i went to the store and i got everything i needed. I got a rolled crust. So were gonna let you go ahead and unroll that. And i also have, like, about a fourinch diameter cup, okay . And so were going to cut out little mini circles with these. So just line it up and then push it down. And then, if you do that, ill pick it up and place it. Might want to push down a little harder. And were just gonna put it right in the center of our pan and then just push down. All the way around. Oh, perfect. Keep going. Youre doing a great job. Yeah, they fit perfectly. You dont have to worry about crimping. This is just kind of a great introduction to pie making. But they still taste like big pies. You bet. Thats great. Okay. Here we go. Perfect. So, were gonna do six . Were gonna make six. Okay. And you can just do these in a normal cupcake tin, right . Right. Exactly. A little muffin cupcake tin. Perfect. Now, we have two options here. One is we can kind of regather this and roll it and cut strips, and we can make like a nice lattice top. Okay. Or we can do an apple crisp. And were gonna do the apple crisp, okay . So lets get rid of this. And ill show you how to do that. All right. So, what we have here is a mixture of brown sugar and flour, two to one. And we melted some butter. All right, so were gonna make our crisp topping. So, were just gonna pour this in, and then just give it a whirl. What do people like more than sugar and butter . [ chuckles ] it smells really good. Okay. That looks pretty good. All right. Were just gonna set this aside, okay, cause this is what were gonna use in just a few minutes. Okay, so, katie, what we did is, we peeled two apples, all right . And so, because mini pies dont take a long time to bake, we want to make sure that our apples are soft. So we put them in the microwave for five minutes. And weve already done that, so now were gonna add our spices. Okay. All right. So, now were gonna add 3 tablespoons of sugar. Perfect. And were gonna add 1 2 teaspoon of cinnamon. And then just a pinch of nutmeg. A pinch. There you go. All right. And were just gonna stir that up. Oh, so theyre soft from being in the microwave. Right. Okay. Okay, thats perfect. So, now that weve mixed all our spices, were gonna fill our mini pies. Okay. All right . So, heres a spoon. And just fill it right up to the top. Okay. And ill help you so we can kind of get this done quickly. You know, this is another great introduction to the art of pie baking. Theyre just really manageable theyre easy to make. And they taste as good as regular pies. Exactly. You know, after these are made you can also wrap them and just stick them in the freezer, and theyll keep in the freezer for about four months. Ohh. Thats useful. So, thats perfect, katie. Prepare them in advance. All right. That looks great. All right. So, now were gonna take our crumb topping, and were going to just stick it right on top. So, were going to this can get a little messy, but dont worry, okay . cause we can just well be off to the side, so you dont even have to worry. Okay. You know. There you go. So, we can just go ahead and finish this. Ill give you that. Ill get another spoon to help you. How much do you want to do . Yeah, well just cover it pretty generously. cause i think this is one of the best parts of it, the crumb topping. Tasty. Perfect. Wonderful. Just do the last one, here, and i think were good. That looks great. All right. So, now were going to just stick this in a 425degree oven for 15 minutes, okay . [ oven beeping ] mmm do these smell delicious. Im gonna shut this, put this down. Mmm. They look perfect. And voila. That did not take long at all. Theyre real hot, but im going to take one out so you can see how easy they are to get out. You just want to run a knife around the edge. And then it will just pop out. So, i would really kind of let these cool before i do this, but just to kind of give you an idea. There you have it, my dear. Oooh. There you go. So, you can make pies from scratch or from a kit like this one. Elizabeth jeans Homemade Pies made easy. And not just easy, but delicious. For teen kids news, im katie. Mmm well see you next time on teen kids news. Thanks for watching. Have a great week. Heres a shoutout to pr newswire for including teen kids news on their big screen in times square new york city. Jack hannas animal adventures, brought to you by seaworld and busch gardens. For more than forty years, working to preserve the world we share. Jack of arabia. Tell you what, it beats walking across the desert music
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