8:30 LRN Newscast January 7

Could Louisiana be heading towards another peak in the flu season? Matt Doyle asked the Office of Public Health about the growing concerns…
cut 2 (32) “…I’m Matt Doyle”

And according to the U-S Census Bureau, the state lost nearly 11-thousand residents from 2018 to 2019. Demographer Greg Rigamer says blame the local economy…
cut 7 (07) “….of that”
Texas had the largest population increase in 2019, adding 367-thousand residents.

The Mediterranean diet is ranked by US News and World Report as the best diet for 2020 and right behind that is the Dash Diet, which researchers at LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center helped develop. Chief of dietary assessment Catherine Champagne says the Dash Diet calls for the consumption of fruits and green leafy vegetables, like broccoli, asparagus, and cabbage…
cut 14 (11) “…your cardiovascular risk”
The Keto Diet is ranked as the worst diet for 2020. Champagne says that’s because we don’t know if there are long-term health risks.

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry says if you purchased a ticket on the secondary market to Monday’s national championship game double check to see if the ticket is legit…
cut 6 (09) “…hotline”
The consumer protection hotline number is 1-800-351-4889.