Governor Bobby Jindal announces that the Department of Health and Hospitals is canceling Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid provider agreement. This decision comes after controversial secretly taped videos showed Planned Parenthood officials talking about using aborted fetus parts for medical research. Planned Parenthood doesn’t perform abortions in Louisiana, but they do provide health care services for low-income families. In a statement, Planned Parenthood says Jindal’s decision will jeopardize health care for low-income, uninsured Louisianians. They have 30 days to appeal.

A study out of Duke University raises concerns that children who are picky eaters may be at increased risk for depression and anxiety. Dr. Martin Drell, Head of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at LSU New Orleans, says it’s clear kids have different tastes in eating, but it’s a bit of stretch to say that could be a factor for possible disorders…

cut 4 (12) “development”

Drell says in many cases, being a “picky eater” is a phase kids will grow out of.

The hurricane forecast team at Colorado State University will update its outlook for the current hurricane season today. C-S-U researchers called for a well-below average hurricane season in June. State climatologist Barry Keim says based on atmospheric conditions, it’s likely we will continue to see below-normal activity in the tropics

cut 11 (09) “somewhat reduced”

NOAA will update its forecast on Thursday after predicting between six to eleven named storms at the beginning of the season.

A new LSU Pennington Biomedical Research Center study designates the lack of physical activity as the number one predictor of childhood obesity. Lead author, Dr. Peter Katzmarzyk says we’ve somehow managed to engineer physical activity out of our kids’ lives…

cut 8 (10) “back to that”

He says children should be getting at least 60 minutes of vigorous physical activity every day.