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2B Daily News – Wednesday, December 18, 2013 FEATURES Use teen's motivation to help him quit smoking ple, may be more DEAR DOClikely to try to quit TOR K: I recently smoking if they discovered that my want to participate teenage son is in school sports. If smoking. How can that's the case, I help him quit? emphasizing the DEAR READphysical benefits ER: Parents can do of quitting may many things to help. help their teens Dr. K There's no quit smoking. First by Anthony L. sport that doesn't and foremost, if you smoke, stop. It Komaroff, M.D. require healthy lungs for maximal will be hard for your teen to take you seri- performance. Your teen ously if you're telling him may not connect smoking to do something you to diseases like lung cancer and heart attacks that won't do. If you did smoke and generally occur decades have already quit, talk to later. But smoking is damyour son about your expe- aging your son's lungs rience. Discuss the chal- now: He is not getting lenges you faced when enough oxygen into his or removing trying to quit. You may blood, have noticed that teens enough carbon dioxide often believe they are both waste from his blood. immortal and invincible. That will negatively affect They often believe they his performance. If his can quit smoking whenev- sport is basketball, and he er they want. But adoles- is as gifted as LeBron cents often spend less James, his smoking may time than adults mentally not matter. But if he is a preparing to quit smoking. normal kid, it may matter That can reduce the a lot. In another example, if a chances that they will sucteen is smoking in order to ceed. Teens are also more stay thin or lose weight, likely than adults to act on he or she should be given impulse and discount information about nutrilong-term consequences. tion and exercise along You may have noticed with stop-smoking stratethat, too. As a result, you gies. When your son tries to may need to spend extra time educating your son quit, be ready for the about why it's important mood swings and crankito stop smoking. Provide ness that can come with specific advice about how nicotine withdrawal. If you are not making to avoid situations where peers might be smoking, progress, look into stopand discuss what he will smoking programs for do when the temptation to teens. Smoking cessation programs can help teach smoke occurs. Ask your teen why he behavioral techniques to is smoking, and what you manage temptations. Finally, ask your son's can do to make quitting possible. If your son is pediatrician whether quitsmoking to relieve stress, smoking medications are suggest that the two of an option. These include replacement, you play some games nicotine (ideally, athletic, but com- bupropion and vareniputer games are OK, too) cline. a few times a week to burn Dr. Komaroff is a off steam in a healthy way. Another strategy is to physician and professor Harvard Medical take advantage of your at To send teen's motivations. What School. go to things are really important questions, or to him, and how can quit- AskDoctorK.com, ting smoking help him write: Ask Doctor K, 10 achieve those things? Shattuck St., Second Teenage boys, for exam- Floor, Boston, MA 02115. Gleaners schedule Gleaners will distribute food as follows in November: • Corning, 8 a.m. to noon, Wednesday, Dec. 18, Corning Senior Center, 1015 Fourth Ave. • Red Bluff, 8 a.m. to noon, Wednesday, Dec. 18, Food Bank, 20699 Walnut St. All other sites in the county will be at the usual times and places. Applications for food bank cards may be on the day of giveaway. Bring large paper or plastic bags if possible. New applicants please bring Rent Receipt, PG&E bill or something with a physical address. All income must be reported. Income is gross monthly per household not net. Only one card will be issued per household. Teens turn assault into a macho game added burden of combating Dear Annie: I just finthe multiple pernicious ished watching a piece on influences around them. It's the news about young peohard to raise kids these days, ple assaulting others and and we commend those parcalling it a game. It seems ents who manage to do it they walk up to unsuspectwell. ing people and throw the Dear Annie: I have a hardest punch they can to friend who often asks: the face in an effort to Annie's ''What's happening?'' But knock someone out. when I attempt to tell her, In one instance, a man she rudely interrupts and was hit so hard, he fell face first to the curb and frac- by Kathy Mitchell says, ''I don't want to hear tured his skull. He died, and and Marcy Sugar about it!'' It doesn't matter what the subject is. She even the person who hit him was charged with manslaughter. The interrupts for others, saying, ''She kids being interviewed were all doesn't want to hear about it!'' She laughing about it, as if it were some also cuts me off mid-sentence and sort of party. They said it was a mockingly finishes my thoughts for macho thing, to prove how tough or me. Attempting to carry on a conversation with her is hurtful and strong you are. The sad part is that they are exasperating, and I find her to be raised as if their actions have no extremely rude. However, if the conversation consequences. Parents, teach your children better before it's too late. centers on her, it can go on forever. Also, if she is trying to impress peo— Worried Adult Dear Adult: It's sad to see a ple, no matter how boring the conworld where children think assault versation, she hangs on their every is a sport, where the constant media word. I have to deal with this ''conbarrage publicizes and glamorizes versation bully'' often. How am I violence, and where these immature supposed to handle her? — Sharp teens either don't understand the Stick in the Ear Dear Sharp: You are already consequences of their actions or think prison is simply another aware that your friend is self-cenbadge of toughness. We doubt they tered and only interested in converwould find this activity so much sation that is somehow beneficial to ''fun'' if the victim were someone her. When she asks, ''What's happening?'' she doesn't really want to they cared about. We've forgotten how to be civi- know. It's simply her way of saying lized to one another, nor do we hello. Here are your options: You value it. Parents not only need to can tell your friend how rude and teach compassion and responsibility upsetting this is and ask her to be to their children, but they have the more considerate; you can restrict Mailbox your conversation to topics that stroke her ego; you can find other friends. Dear Annie: I read the letter from ''Furious and Concerned,'' whose physician cousin often treats and gives medication to family members. The Medical Board of California does not prohibit physicians from treating family members, but does require that any prescribing of medications (and giving samples is indeed prescribing) be accompanied by an appropriate history and physical examination. It also requires that adequate medical records be kept of the treatment, the same as for any other patient. In California, the actions described would put that physician at risk of losing his license for unprofessional conduct. I don't know what state this cousin lives in, but ''Furious'' should advise her relatives to stop asking him for free medical care. We all receive such requests, and they are often difficult to refuse. She also could send the physician a copy of this reply, as he may be unaware that his actions are putting his license at risk. — Concerned MD in California Annie's Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailboxcomcast.net, or write to: Annie's Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. Tips to avoid 'Turkey Flu' next holiday season For years, Liz Tarditi's mother tried to kill her family with turkey. Not intentionally, of course, but invariably sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas someone in the family developed flu-like symptoms. Mother blamed it on the weather and whatever influenza was going around, but the truth is they suffered from mild food poisoning that required weeks to fully recover. Tarditi, a professional personal chef, says the way to avoid "the flu" and make sure the holidays are as healthy as they are happy is to practice safe food handling techniques when preparing the Thanksgiving turkey. Conquer the bacteria. Most poultry contain small amounts of salmonella bacteria that, when ingested, can result in a variety of afflictions all the way from slight illness to death. The way to kill the salmonella in food is with heat and on surfaces with an antibacterial agent. Make it yourself. Every kitchen needs an effective antibacterial solution. But don't spend $6 for a 12ounce bottle of cleaner. Make it yourself: One gallon of 70 F (cool) water plus one teaspoon of liquid bleach. Any warmer and the bleach evaporates; more bleach will harm some surfaces and fabrics. Don't get obsessive, just measure carefully and stick with this perfect, dirtcheap recipe that will not harm wood, paint, marble or fabric. Sanitize liberally. Regularly sanitize all kitchen surfaces with this bleach water, particularly those that may have come in contact with raw so you think it's fully cooked because the bird is. It's not. poultry, including It's nearly impossible to the inside of the cook a stuffed turkey to a refrigerator. perfect internal temperature Proper prep. and also guarantee uncontClean out your aminated stuffing. Prepare refrigerator before your stuffing as you always you go shopping for have, but bake it in a sepaa turkey. Make a place rate foil-covered pan while for a large sheet pan to the turkey's roasting. After catch the raw runoff dripthe bird is fully cooked and pings while it sits in the out of the oven, mix some fridge. Leave the turkey Mary of the roasting pan dripwrapped and place it in pings and fat into the stuffthe fridge on the sheet ing before you make the pan. Even sealed in plasgravy. tic, it will drip. Let the Easy does it. The easiest frozen turkey thaw natuway to roast a turkey is to rally. It will take one day set the oven to 325 F. Place per five pounds. the turkey in a roasting pan, No thawing shortcuts. season with salt and pepper Don't take the frozen turkey out and leave it on the and put it in uncovered. It will take counter to speed thaw. Don't try to about 3 hours for a 6-pound turkey; quick-thaw it by placing it into the add 10-12 minutes for each addioven at a low temperature, or in a tional pound, up to 6 hours total for sink of water. Don't "blast" it at 500 a 25-pound bird. It's done when it F for three hours before company reads 165 F. Let the bird rest for 20 arrives. Thawing a turkey any other minutes before carving for juicier way than in the refrigerator on a and more flavorful meat. sheet pan for several days invites Would you like to send a tip to trouble because it increases the Mary? You can email her at chances that bacteria will make it through the cooking process alive mary@everydaycheapskate.com, or write to Everyday Cheapskate, and well. Early thaw? No worries. Even if P.O. Box 2099, Cypress, CA 90630. the turkey is thawed completely by Include your first and last name and say, Tuesday, just leave it fully state. Mary Hunt is the founder of and wrapped in the refrigerator. It will www.DebtProofLiving.com author of 23 books, including her still be excellent on Thursday. Rethink stuffing. As a stuffed 2013 release "Cheaper, Better, bird cooks, raw juices drip into the Faster: Over 2,000 Tips and Tricks soft, absorbent stuffing. It may be to Save You Time and Money Every steaming hot when you spoon it out, Day." Hunt Everyday Cheapskate Draft document issued for Trinity River rehab WEAVERVILLE – The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review a Draft Environmental Assessment/Initial Study on the Trinity River 2014 Channel Rehabilitation Project sites Bucktail and Lower Junction City. The proposed project is designed to enhance aquatic habitat quality and complexity through construction of slow water rearing habitat for juvenile salmon and steelhead, reconnection of the floodplain with the river, revegetation of native plants, and placement of in-river wood structures to react with flow and create/maintain habitat. Reclamation and the Bureau of Land Management, federal co-lead agencies, and the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, California state lead agency, are working together to inform the public about the proposed project. A public meeting to describe the proposed project and to receive public input will be held on 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 17 at Trinity County Public Library, 351 N. Main St., Weaverville. The Bucktail site is located on the mainstem Trinity River, just upstream of the Bucktail Bridge near Lewiston, Calif. The Lower Junction City site is located in Junction City on the mainstem Trinity River, just downstream of the Dutch Creek Bridge. The TRRP intends to construct the proposed project, depending on public input and funding, in 2014 to increase salmon and steelhead habitat downstream of Lewiston Dam, as described in the Dec. 19, 2000, Record of Decision for the Trinity River Mainstem Fishery Restoration Environmental Impact Statement. The Draft EA/IS was prepared in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act and California Environmental Quality Act and is available at http://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/nepa_p rojdetails.cfm?Project_ID=15761. If you encounter problems accessing the document online, please call 916-9785100 (TTY 800-735-2929) or email mppublicaffairs@usbr.gov. The Draft EA/IS may be reviewed in Weaverville at the Trinity County Library, 211 Main St.; the TRRP office, 1313 S. Main St.; the Trinity County Resource Conservation District at Horseshoe Square; and at the Bureau of Land Management Office, 355 Hemsted Drive, Redding. For additional information or to request a copy of the Draft EA/IS, call Michele Gallagher at 530-623-1804 or magallagher@usbr.gov. Comments must be received by Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, and should be mailed to Michele Gallagher, Trinity River Restoration Program, P.O. Box 1300, Weaverville, CA 96093.