>> welcome to "teen kids news." i'm siena. we'll start with our top story. >> there's a deadly danger lurking inside many of our homes. not the cleaning products -- we know to avoid those. it's no surprise that tools, especially those that are sharp or electric, need to be handled with care. no, this danger is usually found

in the bathroom, right in the medicine cabinet. experts say... ...meaning the medicine was prescribed for someone else. >> it has become the drug problem of the 21st century. >> robert stutman spent years as a special agent with the government's drug enforcement administration. he says many teens don't realize that medicines can be as dangerous as illegal drugs. >> kids believe that because it originally came from a doctor, it is safe, and nothing could be further from the truth. >> these medicines are called "prescription drugs." that's because they are ordered, or prescribed, by a doctor or other medical expert. >> if you have a drug and you're taking it, then a lot of thought has gone into the dosage and frequency with which you take it. >> dr. abbott works for quest diagnostics, a company that specializes in healthcare. quest wants teens to know that taking someone else's medicine

puts you at risk for heart problems, addiction, overdose, even death. >> the majority of those who died from drug overdose in this country -- about 60% died from prescription-drug overdose. >> take, for example, kids who have trouble paying attention, especially in class. they have a chemical imbalance in the brain. there's medicine that can correct that and help them be able to concentrate better. but some teens who don't have that chemical imbalance mistakenly believe taking that medicine will help them do better on tests. >> and there is tremendous pressure on kids who have the prescription to share it with their friends. >> and as i said in the beginning of this report, another place kids find other people's medicine is right at home. >> quite often, family members that are prescribed medication, even after having used the majority of the medication, they leave the remainder in the

medicine closet, and, unfortunately, that becomes an access point for teenagers to acquire prescribed medication. >> they don't really realize what they're taking, but they're just taking it because they can. >> these are scenes from a documentary made by a teenager. it's called "out of reach" because that's how prescription drugs should be kept -- out of reach. >> how do you start that? >> i just took pills from the medicine cabinet. >> besides the health dangers, here's another reason to avoid taking medicine not prescribed for you. it's illegal. the bottom line -- taking someone else's medicine can be a prescription for trouble. for "teen kids news," i'm emily. >> even if you're careful to avoid eating a lot of sugary foods, you may still be consuming more sugar than you should. i'll explain.

>> most of us know too much sugar is bad for us. the effects can range from acne to obesity, health p and in the future. but it's not just the sugar in food that's adding up. nicole talked to nutrition expert dr. deb kennedy about liquid sugar, starting with the number-one culprit -- soda. >> so, how much soda does the typical teen drink? >> well, the typical teen boy drinks two cans of soda a day and a girl about 1.4 cans a day. >> wow. >> and that's a lot of extra calories and sugar, because the typical soda has 10 teaspoons of sugar a day. >> wow. >> right? >> is that over the limit? >> that is totally over the limit. so, a boy can have 8 1/4 teaspoons a day, and a girl, 5 teaspoons a day.

so, a teen girl -- her allotment of added sugar would be half a can of soda. so, it's really not that much. >> right, especially 'cause she's not gonna drink half a can and then throw it out. >> no. no. absolutely not. no. and when you look at where teens are getting most of their sugar, you're looking at it. it's all of these liquid -- we call them "liquid candy" in the business, right? it is your soda and your iced tea and your flavored milk and also your juice, as well. >> isn't juice better for you than soda? >> juice -- um, yes. juice is better for you than soda, and when you buy juice, you should look for the 100% juice. but the thing with juice is that sugar is sugar is sugar, right? you can drink too much sugar by drinking way too much juice, so you should limit the amount of juice you drink a day to one cup a day. and then the rest of your servings of fruit should be the real thing -- the apples and bananas and strawberries. so, don't drink more than one cup of juice a day, right? and try and avoid most of the other liquid candies, except

once a week, perhaps, as an occasional treat. >> i don't really understand that. i would have thought that when the juice says, "all natural," i would think that the natural sugars would be better for you than the processed sugars. >> right. so, in juice, you have a lot of fructose, right? so, this is a strawberry banana juice, and in this, it has about 43 grams of sugar. so, that has 10 teaspoons of sugar in it. yes, it comes from fruit, but if you look at a strawberry, one cup of strawberries has 7 grams of sugar. so, this is like eating 6 cups of strawberries in terms of if you ate 6 cups of strawberries, you wouldn't be able to do it -- right? -- because you would get too full. >> you can't sit there and eat 6 cups of strawberries. >> right. so, your body is naturally developed to stop eating when full. but when you mush all the fruit down into a juice, you can pound away the sugar really, really easily, and your body doesn't say, "stop" as readily.

your body takes in the calories you drink differently than the calories you eat. so, that is brand-spanking-new research that we've found. so, definitely -- you see "all natural," that doesn't mean "drink as much as you want." >> how 'bout coffee drinks? what's in those? >> tons and tons of sugar. so, they might be called "coffee drinks," but they have as much sugar as hot chocolate. they usually come with the whipped cream. but if you look at how much sugar are in those coffee drinks, you would be surprised. it's way over your daily limit. so, what i say is stick to herbal iced teas -- those have lower sugar -- or grab some seltzer water and add a little bit of juice to it and drink those for a sweet drink every day. and watch the caffeine in those coffee drinks, too, 'cause that can add up. >> so, what should we be drinking? >> okay. you should be drinking lots of water every day -- about 6 to 7 glasses of water -- one cup of juice a day, three cups of milk, and that's what you should be drinking every day. the rest you need to think of as "that's something i'm gonna have

occasionally." it is not a daily drink. you drink these drinks every day, that's why you look to the right, you look to the left -- 1 in 3 teens will develop diabetes in their lifetime. 1 in 2 african-american or hispanic teens will develop diabetes in their lifetime. and this is why. you got to stop doing this. >> what about flavored milks? >> so, flavored milk -- the great thing about milk is it's the number-one source of calcium in a teen's diet. the bad news is that about 75% of teens aren't getting enough calcium, so some teens will only drink milk if it's flavored with chocolate or vanilla or strawberry, and all those flavors have a lot of sugar in them. so, if you drank just one of these a day, you would think, "that's not that much." but, actually, it adds up to 23 cups of sugar a year. so, that's a heavy price to pay for the amount of calcium that you're getting. so, what i try and say is dilute it. you can take this home and

probably add 3 more cups of milk to it and it would still be chocolaty enough for you. they put way too much sugar in the ones that you have that you get at the store. so, make your own chocolate milk. and get that calcium while you're growing, because your bones are gonna shut like a bank at the age of 18. >> if you like to drink a big glass of juice, here's a suggestion -- reduce the juice and make up the difference with sparkling water. for "teen kids news," i'm nicole. >> i'll tell you how what i'm wearing has to do with driving.

>> recently we visited the ford motor company in dearborn, michigan. as carina reports, they're able to design a car and even an entire factory using some pretty amazing technology.

>> henry ford revolutionized manufacturing when he came up with the assembly line. instead of one person doing many jobs to build a car, each person specializes in one part of the process. now that process is going through a new revolution. the workers on this assembly line are benefiting from new technology -- virtual reality. >> it's the same technology they use to make video games and movies like "avatar" and "rise of the planet of the apes," and what it essentially does is it tracks objects in space, and then we can make those objects move virtual objects in a virtual environment. [ record scratches ] >> yeah, i found that a little hard to follow, too. but, as they say, seeing is believing, and i was about to see just what he meant. >> hi. >> carina, how are you? >> good. >> hey, come this way. i want to show you something. >> okay.

>> welcome to the ergonomics lab. >> wow. cool. what does "ergonomics" mean? >> oh. ergonomics is really cool. it's the study of the relationship between humans and anything they touch and feel. >> and that's where the virtual reality comes in. allison helped me suit up for what's called "motion capture." it really is how they do special effects in movies. the gloves are tracked by a computer so my hands show up in the virtual reality. and once i put on the headgear, i'm able to actually step into a make-believe, 3-d world. >> what you're gonna see here is it's stereoscopic. so, you're actually gonna go inside the computer... >> cool! >> ...just like being inside a video game. >> of course, ford engineers don't use this stuff to play games. for example, they can use it to design a car without having to build a real car. >> so, we can make evaluations about style or about assembly

technique in a digital environment, where we don't actually have to make real product, which costs a lot more money and takes more time. >> i'm gonna give you the power tool. there you go. >> allison handed me a tool so i could see how motion capture works. wow. this is awesome. it looks so real. remember allison's explanation of ergonomics? [ tape rewinding ] >> it's the study of the relationship between humans and anything they touch and feel. >> with virtual reality, the engineers can look at how workers on the assembly line touch and feel the items they use to assemble a car. >> so, through the use of our motion capture, we actually study all the jobs on the assembly line and make sure that we design them, then, so that a small person on the assembly line can build it and then a very large person. >> thanks to the improvements ergonomic engineers make in the assembly process, workers building cars like the new focus

can more easily focus on doing a good job -- another example of how science is not only very useful but also lots of fun. wow! this is really, really cool. for "tkn," i'm carina. >> we've reported on the dangers of texting while driving. we've even warned you about the dangers of texting while walking. now we're telling you about the dangers of texting while flying. seems a helicopter pilot was texting and crashed because of it. listen, the message is pretty simple -- you always need to look where you're going, whether you're on, beside, or even high above the road. >> want to volunteer a guess at the nickname for tennessee? here's a hint. i've already given you the answer.

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>> we all know what the american flag looks like, but every state has a flag, too, and every one of them tells a story. here's our "flag facts" report. >> in 1796, tennessee became our 16th state. america now stretched west to the shores of the mississippi river. then, in 1812, the united states went to war with britain again. many tennesseans volunteered to fight for their new country. they were commanded by general and soon-to-be president andrew jackson. that patriotic spirit earned tennessee its nickname -- "the volunteer state." but another 80 years would pass

before it got its own state flag. >> this is one of my favorite flags because it's simple. it uses red, white, and blue, and it's a design, actually, that was submitted by a soldier named leroy reeves, and the three stars represent the three parts of the state of tennessee. there's western tennessee, between the tennessee and mississippi rivers, there's middle tennessee, which is known for the tennessee river and also bluegrass country, and then the great smoky mountains are in the eastern part of tennessee, and that's what the third star is meant to represent. >> the design celebrates unity by enclosing all three stars within a circle, and the red, white, and blue colors celebrate tennessee's unity with america. a distinctive blue edging ensures that the flag can be easily recognized, even on days when there's no breeze to unfurl it. with "flag facts," i'm scott.

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we got to speak with an expert. >> if you've seen "pirates of the caribbean," "g.i. joe," or "smurfs 2," then you've seen the work of todd tucker. >> hi. how are you? >> i'm good. how are you? he's one of hollywood's makeup masters. what does a special-effects makeup artist do? >> what a special-effects makeup artist does is they bring in the actor, they create a head cast of the actor, and then we sculpt and design out a makeup that fits the actor perfectly, whether it's an old age or a character or a monster, and then we create the appliances, go on set, glue them on to the actor, and then maintain them throughout the shoot and basically transform them into somebody completely different. >> so, what is an appliance? >> appliances are the pieces that we create. we start with a sculpture on the actor's face, and then we mold that and create an exact copy of that sculpture in either a silicone material or a foam latex material, and then that's custom-fit to the actor, so when we glue it on to their face, when they make expressions and

smile, it moves with their face and it looks completely real and transforms them. >> so, what are some of your favorite creations teens might have seen? >> well, one of my favorite creations is hank azaria as gargamel in the "smurfs" movie... >> [ laughs, burps ] >> ...mainly because we were able to take hank, who's a relatively good-looking guy, and then turn him into this kind of hideous old wizard character, and hank is such a great comedic actor that when we put him into makeup, he just brings the character to life. >> aaaaaaaaah! >> right in the smurfberries. >> what we'll do is we'll bring the actor in and we will do a head cast first so we have an exact copy of his head, and then for "smurfs," what we did was we created a sculpture design of what we were gonna make hank azaria look like as gargamel to show to the director so that he can decide whether or not he likes it and if he wants to make changes. so, for this makeup, we did a -- we had hank shave his head. we did a full wig. we did fake prosthetic ears, nose, teeth, and eyebrows. and to give you an idea, this is

the nose appliance that he wore, and it's made out of silicone. you can feel it. it feels very real. >> yeah. >> so, it looks very real on-camera. these are -- this is the silicone ear that he wore, 'cause we wanted to make his ears very big, and then one of the major things that changed his look were these dentures, which are very silly, giant dentures. >> wow. >> deeply disappointing experiment. >> pretty substantial. >> definitely. >> yeah. >> welcome to the party! [ laughs evilly ] >> how did you get started in this business? >> i was always a huge fan of horror movies and science-fiction films as a kid, and i was also an artist, so i drew a lot. so, i started learning how to sculpt and kind of transfer my drawing to sculpting and ultimately moved to los angeles in 1990, and my first film that i worked on was "hook." >> what kind of talent does it take? >> well, you have to -- you have to be an artist to start. you have to be able to have that

eye where you can visually draw or sculpt. you have to be able to make molds, teeth, eyes. i mean, there's a lot involved in doing makeup effects. >> can you show me a demonstration? >> sure. i'll do a 60-second transformation into a vampire. come on over, and i'll show you how we do it. all right. so, first of all, what i'm gonna do is put a little bit of this dark purple makeup around my eyes to give me a bit of a sunken-in look, little bit of a sickly feel, right there and right there. so, all of a sudden, i don't look as healthy. and i put these lenses in. >> oh. so, they kind of change the color of your eyes. >> they do. >> ohh. [ suspenseful music plays ] do the contacts -- do they hurt your eyes at all? >> they actually don't. >> wow. >> and instantly...

i am a bit scarier. >> definitely. >> yes. >> oh, that's definitely scarier. >> yeah. [ music continues ] >> oh, impressive. you must be a hit at halloween parties. >> we have a lot of fun at halloween. yes, we do. >> so, what advice do you have for kids who want to do what you do? >> start getting videos and books that teach you how to do makeup effects and start learning in your garage and start building stuff and just have fun. >> so, if you're trying to make up your mind about a career and you have a talent for creativity, becoming a special-effects makeup artist might be just the ticket, as in "movie ticket." for "teen kids news," i'm katie. [ thunder crashes ] >> aaaaaah! >> [ laughs evilly ] >> [ laughs ] well, that's our show for this week. thanks for watching "teen kids news." we'll see you next time.

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