Along with her friend skyler troast. Hi. Hi. Hello. Olivia, even before you went into the hospital, you were already involved with an International Organization that provides medical care. Yes. That organization is operation smile, and operation smile is an International Childrens medical charity that repairs cleft lips and cleft palates in developing nations. Often, these children with their facial deformities will suffer from a variety of physical and emotional effects, but operation smile steps in to help heal their smiles across the world. Specifically, what is a cleft lip or a cleft palate . So a cleft lip or a cleft palate is simply a unilateral or a bilateral gap in their mouth, that causes them to have malnutrition, to be shunned by their community, and sometimes not even be able to go to school, so its really important that operation smile provides them access to proper medical care so that they can live a normal life. And skyler, how did you get involved with operation smile
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Movies, tv, and magazine ads have been making smoking look cool. Unfortunately, theyre not showing the truth. Katie tells us more. The health risks are, like, lung cancer, or brain damage, or usually you have a hard time breathing. Sure, weve all heard how smoking can cause cancer and other serious illnesses, but smoking can hurt us in many other ways. Kids need to know, even if the cancer, the lung disease, the heart disease, might be decades away, there are Health Consequences that are much more immediate. For example, theres whats called smokers face. So, smoking damages your skin. It affects the way your collagen is produced and it makes your skin look significantly older than it should. You sometimes see a 20 or 30yearold person who has been smoking since they were a teenager, they have the skin of a 50 or 60yearold person. And, uh, thats not pretty. Some other health risks of smoking include gum disease, cavities, which may lead to bad breath. It rots your teeth. And your teeth c
Lung cancer, or brain damage, or usually you have a hard time breathing. Sure, weve all heard how smoking can cause cancer and other serious illnesses, but smoking can hurt us in many other ways. Kids need to know, even if the cancer, the lung disease, the heart disease, might be decades away, there are Health Consequences that are much more immediate. For example, theres whats called smokers face. So, smoking damages your skin. It affects the way your collagen is produced and it makes your skin look significantly older than it should. You sometimes see a 20 or 30yearold person who has been smoking since they were a teenager, they have the skin of a 50 or 60yearold person. And, uh, thats not pretty. Some other health risks of smoking include gum disease, cavities, which may lead to bad breath. It rots your teeth. And your teeth can turn, like, yellow. You can get yellowing or discoloration of the as well. Smoking can or might also affect the density and strength of your bones. So, you
So smoking damages your skin. It affects the way your collagen is produced and it makes your skin look significantly older than it should. You sometimes see a 20 or 30 year old person who has been smoking since they were a teenager, they have the skin of a 50 or 60 year old person. And, uh, thats not pretty. Some other health risks of smoking include gum disease, cavities which may lead to bad breath. It rots your teeth. And your teeth can turn, like, yellow. You can get yellowing or discoloration of the skin as well. Smoking can or might also affect the density and strength of your bones. So, you have weaker, thinner, more fragile bones that are more susceptible to fracture. Smoking also decreases blood flow and oxygen delivery to the tissues and to the limbs. And so, if you sustain a sports injury or a wound, itll take much longer to heal. It also leads to muscle fatigue and muscle breakdown. And when it comes to the sense. It can decrease hearing, decrease eyesight, decrease sense o