By Karen Kaller Hawkeye staff Stress is something everyone goes through in life, whether you are an adult or a teen. Adults usually face stress because of work and/or other personal affairs like relationships. Teens on the other hand face stress due to school, relationships, feeling lonely, drugs, and many other reasons. Many do not [...]
By Olivia Driscoll Health Editor With flu season coming up it’s important to be prepared and keep yourself healthy. According to the Centers for Disease Control every year between 5 and 20 percent of the population gets the flu. There are different strains of flu, some worse than others. The flu usually isn’t serious for [...]
By Joy Gardner Opinion Editor Ever feel like you need that coffee pick me up? Next time you feel a craving coming up, you may want to reconsider. Coffee is everywhere, grown in about 70 different countries. According to Wikipedia, “un-roasted coffee is one of the most traded agricultural commodities in the world”. Coffee contains [...]
With the health effects and addiction, every day over ten billion cigarettes are purchased. A new alternative to smoking traditional cigarettes is becoming popular, electronic cigarettes. Widely available, these can be purchased online or even at the mall. Electronic cigarettes work with a cartridge full of nicotine heated up by an atomizer device that produces [...]
By Olivia Driscoll Health Editor Hookah, considered a safe alternative to smoking other things, is really just as dangerous, if not more, to someone’s health and is a rising new trend that many people, including students from Mountlake Terrace High School who have and haven’t graduated are now starting to use. A hookah is a [...]
By Abby McDermott Hawkeye staff On June 2, a new, sleek, and useful plate icon replaced the food pyramid that has been in place since 1992. The pyramid had been criticized for being too confusing and unhelpful. The U.S. Department of Agriculture hopes that the new icon, called MyPlate, will urge Americans to focus on [...]
By Nazia Khan Distribution Manager Most people want to get married and start new life with the person they love, but sometimes marriage ends in divorce. Marriage and divorce can be the cause of weight gain. According to a study done at Ohio State University, marriage is a trigger for weight gain among women who [...]
According to Insomnia Statistics, approximately 55 percent of people suffer from insomnia, which is a condition in which people have trouble falling asleep every night and cannot stay asleep for long periods of time. They also tend to wake up frequently during the night, and even after a full night of sleep, are still [...]
All students in High school and middle school are obviously too young to drink, but the availability of these dangerous drugs are too inviting to stay away. How can most kids resist when companies are adding alcohol into energy drinks even though, high school kids are more likely to drink them? The new flavors of [...]
Every year students look forward to that sunny week off from school: spring break. This week is meant to be fun and it can be, but it often leads to dangerous situations. According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), as many as one in seven high school students under the age of [...]
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