Health

Restaurant health inspectors busy checking out local businesses. Most pass with flying colors.

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We’re starting to think Pizza Hut has gone off a crazy cliff recently, what with their introduction of the Cheeseburger Crown Pizza and Cone Crust Pizza. It’s like Mr. Pizza Hut (he exists, right?) is trying to make some fantasy food magic happen, but it doesn’t quite seem to work. So when the popular food chain unveiled its latest creation, ‘Kit Kat Pops’, we shouldn’t have been surprised, right? Wrong. This sugary, chocolaty, strangely-looks-a-little-delicious thing came out of left field, once again.

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Shreveport's Feist-Weiller Cancer Center is offering you a chance to be a guest DJ with Robert J Wright and Erin McCarty! It's part of their Life Savers 2012 fundraiser coming up Saturday night at the Shreveport Convention Center.

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School lunch calorie limits are on the way. New federal guidelines are trimming the number of calories that can be served in all public school cafeterias.

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At one point in our lives, we lived on a 87-acre farm near Lake Bisteneau. As all farmers know, farm work never ends. One hot summer day, my husband and our 10-year-old son were digging post holes for some new fencing. My husband was operating the tractor and my son was manning the post hole digger. Hole after hole, they made their way across the pasture.

It was a typical Louisiana Day: a zillion degrees, high humidity and absolutely no shade. That's when it hit! My husband fell to his knees with full-fledged heat stroke.

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We raced to cure breast cancer this weekend -- literally! The Susan G. Komen Foundation held its 18th annual Race for the Cure on September 15 at the CenturyLink Center and we were there bright and early. Being the competitive pair that we are, we decided it would be fun to spice up the race a little, laying down some ground rules that would give Erin a definite advantage come race time. But was it enough?

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Robert J. Wright isn't exactly an athletic guy. He's way too cool for sweat. But that didn't stop him from agreeing to put on his rarely used exercise shorts and signing up with Erin McCarty for the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure on September 15 at the CenturyLink Center.

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This morning in New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg's ban on large sugar-laden drinks was approved by the Department of Health in a 9-1 vote.

How long do the Big Apple's Big Gulp enthusiasts have until they can't buy a soda bigger than 16 ounces?

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Prying your children away from their video game consoles and getting them to play outside for an hour might be somewhat of a task, but a new study suggests that all you have to do is keep them active for seven minutes to keep them healthy and physically fit.

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Who Dat! The Saints are playing today and I'm trying to be healthier, especially since I somehow made it to the gym only once last week. So, instead of pigging out on game day, I'm sharing with you this recipe for a healthy twist on seven-layer dip from Eating Well. Enjoy!

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We have all seen those annoying late night commercials advertising ridiculous fitness products catering to a fat and lazy population looking to get into shape with minimal effort.

Well, turns out there might actually be something to all this minimal effort business.

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Bullying has been around forever, but it’s really come to the forefront over the last few years with experts and educators weighing in with different ways to solve this problem that affects so many kids.

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