The LSU AgCenter developed a milk-based meal replacement powder to help consumers lose weight. Emelie Gunn has more on the product that will be tested at LSU’s Pennington Research Center …
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Multiple reports indicate NFL viewership is down this season. Kelley Ray spoke with a Baton Rouge ad agent about the impacts…
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Former Governor Kathleen Blanco says she’s in the fight for her life as the 74-year-old is battling liver cancer. Jeff Palermo has more…
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The LSU AgCenter has developed a milk-based meal replacement powder to help consumers lose weight. Studies show drinking meal replacement shakes for 12 weeks instead of meals is a safe way to drop pounds. Director of the AgCenter Food Incubator Gaye Sandoz says they’ve developed the powder and now LSU’s Pennington Research Center will test the product.
Sandoz says the AgCenter created the powder shake in chocolate and vanilla flavors and a candy to be added to the meal replacement.
The powder is derived from a2 milk, which is easier to digest than normal milk. Sandoz says they will work with Pennington to package and market the product. She adds this development came from a long period of hard work by researchers.
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Multiple reports indicate fewer people are watching as much pro football than they used too. Baton Rouge-based Todd Advertising Agency owner Deborah Todd says it’s not just national anthem protests, she says viewer fatigue has also set in, because of an over saturation of NFL games…
Todd says cord cutters, households who get rid of cable or satellite TV, is also hurting NFL viewership. She says internet based apps like Netflix, Hulu and Directvnow, is helping to further divide people’s attention away from professional football and it’s cheaper…
NFL contracts involving the five television networks, Twitter and Amazon Prime are worth five-billion-dollars through 2022. With the viewers scattering, Todd foresees advertisers and networks alike renegotiating their contracts…
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LaPolitics Weekly reports Congressman Ralph Abraham is considering a run for governor in 2019. Abraham says he hasn’t made any decisions, but a number of people are asking him about it. ULM Political Science Professor Joshua Stockley says the Richland Parish physician will need to boost his name recognition
U.S. Senator John Kennedy, Attorney General Jeff Landry and Congressman Garret Graves are a few GOP politicians that are suspected to run against current Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards. Stockley says at this point it appears Kennedy, Landry or Graves have a better chance at defeating Edwards in 2019…
Abraham is a doctor, airplane pilot and former veterinarian. Stockley says it’s more common to see winning candidates from New Orleans, Lafayette or Baton Rouge. He says Abraham is very popular in north and central Louisiana, but…
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A dozen juvenile whooping cranes have been released at the Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge as part of an ongoing effort to protect them from extinction. Biologist Sara Zimorski with Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says they are joining eleven juveniles that were released a couple of weeks ago in Vermilion Parish…
Whooping cranes are the tallest bird in North America, standing on average five feet tall. Zimorski they are a beautiful bird to look at and fits in well with Louisiana because…
In 1939, the last recorded whooping crane egg hatched in Louisiana until last year. Zimorski says by letting them hatch in a controlled environment, helps them to get a larger population quicker…