You may think knives and deep-fried Mars bars have little in common. And you'd be right, apart from in Scotland. Young Voices reporter Caroline McNeil is concerned her country is winning awards for all the wrong reasons. Not only has Scotland been dubbed the knife capital of the world, but Scots are now the most obese nation apart from Americans. Caroline has a message for forgetful young people: "Only you control what you eat!"
Young journalists from Vibe magazine are informing teenagers about health in their latest edition. They cover drugs, alcohol, smoking and sexually transmitted infections. Their advice is to: "keep off the grass, stop dying for a fag and start binge thinking instead of binge drinking." They also came up with some new definitions of medical terms. Apparently an enema is not a friend and cauterize refers to the act of making eye contact with a girl.
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