The 83rd annual Louisiana Sugar Cane Festival gets underway in New Iberia today. Kace Kieschnick has more.
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A group of inmates in the Evangeline Parish jail apparently improvised in getting their nicotine fix by turning to Jesus. Andrew Greenstein explains.
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The 83rd annual Louisiana Sugarcane Festival begins in New Iberia today. The four days of festivities kick off tonight with the Farm Fest, and that’s followed by three full days of entertainment, including carnival rides, live music and the Queen Sugar pageant. Festival board member Doreen Landry says it’s a fun weekend for the whole family.
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Landry says around 30-thousand visitors are expected to visit downtown New Iberia for the festival. She says the festival is a great way to honor Louisiana sugar cane farmers every year.
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And of course, no festival is complete without food. Landry says revelers can satisfy their sweet tooth and any other cravings at the festival’s food trucks.
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The only junior college in the LSU system is experiencing tremendous growth. The fall enrollment at LSU Eunice has topped four-thousand for the first time ever and is approaching five-thousand. Chancellor Nancee Sorensen says the enrollment increase to just under 47-hundred students is the result of the school’s ability to adapt to changing times.
LSU-E’s fall enrollment represents almost a 23-percent increase of last year’s then-record enrollment. Sorensen says the growth encompasses many facets.
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LSU-E’s enrollment includes nearly 14-hundred dual enrollment students, more than one-thousand first-time students and 458 transfer students. Sorensen says she expects the growth to continue.
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One of LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center’s lead researchers on dementia says not enough research has been done to see how ultra processed foods affect the brain. Dr. Owen Carmichael says people would like to know how these dietary items affect the brain as people age.
Carmichael says we know that ultra processed food consumption is bad for the body, and it’s plausible there are also dementia-related outcomes — but not enough human trials have been done.
Some studies have founds relationships between greater consumption of ultra processed foods and poorer cognitive outcomes, but researchers are still working to determine how much of that relationship can be attributed directly to the foods themselves and how much may reflect diet, lifestyle or overall health.