LSU Pennington Biomedical Research Center receives a grant of more than $13 million to find the best way to help childhood obesity in minority and rural communities.
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Drivers who travel across the Jimmie Davis Bridge in Shreveport connecting Caddo and Bossier Parishes will notice activity at the base of the bridge. Teiko Foxx explains….
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LSU Pennington Biomedical Research Center has received a more than $13 million grant to help fight childhood obesity among minorities and those in rural communities. Associate Professor Amanda Staiano says the grant will allow them to find the best approach to deliver their 26-hour evidence-based obesity program.
Staiano says participants will be under the guidance of their physician and have access to a nutritionist. And while they recognize the program isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach, a social worker is also assigned to the family…
The outreach study among minority children and those in rural backgrounds is in conjunction with Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Staiano says both Louisiana and Tennessee have similar obesity rates, especially among minorities and children in rural areas.
In the US about 22 percent of Hispanic and 20 percent of Black children have obesity compared to 14 percent of white children. In rural areas, the childhood obesity rate increases to 22 percent.
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The Louisiana Department of Transportation has started preliminary site work for the new $361 million dollar Jimmie Davis Bridge connecting Bossier and Caddo Parishes. Spokesperson Erin Buchanan says drivers may notice workers clearing debris and vegetation near the foot of the bridge.
Buchanan says major construction on the four-lane bridge is still about a year away as design work continues. She says the design phase also includes transforming the existing structure into a linear park.
Buchanan says crews are assembling a trestle bridge to be used during construction on the new bridge. She says it’s a design-build project so larger parts of the development may not be seen for some time…
The entire project is expected to be completed in around five years.
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State Police have arrested a teenager driver involved in a fatal hit and run crash that occurred last week involving a bicyclist in Lafourche Parish. Trooper Ross Brennan says 19-year-old Isabelle Nguyen was traveling north on LA Highway one when she struck 66-year-old Henry Savoie of Larose
Savoie died over the weekend from his injuries. Brennan says Nguyen was arrested yesterday and charged with hit and run driving with serious injury or death…
According to the police report, while Troopers were at the scene of the crash, Nguyen went to a sub station of the sheriff’s department. That’s when she was interviewed about her involvement in the crash. Brennan says Nguyen should have contacted authorities immediately
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Three people have died in three separate house fires in Louisiana over the last two days. Two of the fatal fires were in Avoyelles Parish. State Fire Marshal spokesperson Ashley Rodrigue says the first fatal fire that occurred in Avoyelles occurred in the southern part of the parish…
Rodrigue says there was second fatal fire in Avoyelles Parish this morning…
Rodrigue says they are also investigating a fatal fire that took place in St. Tammany Parish…