judge shot down the state s sweeping school voucher program, ruling that state could not use funds set aside for public education to pay for private school tuition for thousands of low and middle income children. governor jindal calling the ruling, quote, wrong headed. he vows to appeal. heather: coming up, a new study linking a specific food that you may eat to an increased risk for diabetes. the results of this new research and what it means for your diet, up next with dr. siegle. [ male announcer ] more than a security system,
sure it s helpful in terms of lack of trust that exists from previous negotiations and the lack of trust exists on both sides. let s be honest. but they have to find the trust. they got to work towards a solution that will help the american people in both the short-term and the long-term. it can be done. don t forget, once the leaders cut a deal, it s got to pass the house and it s got to pass the senate. steve: there are a lot of people on both sides who say yea and nay to both of them. thank you very much for dropping by. gretchen: coming up, the numbers are staggering. the record amount of student loan debt straight ahead. steve: then it s a story that has a lot of parents talking. would you want to know if your baby is going to grow up to be obese? there is a way to find out. dr. siegle has the data. he s next. [ male announcer ] with over 50 delicious choices
coming up right now, a new on-line test may help parents predict if their baby will actually be obese. it s a simple formula that takes into account a child s birth weight, the parents body mass index, household size, mom s professional status, and whether or not mom smoked during pregnancy. so is this actually right? joining us is the fox news medical director, dr. mark siegle, part of our a team here. great to see you. great to see you. gretchen: i find this study fascinating on many, many fronts. do you like it? well, i like your opening point that it s too good to be true. i also am always suspicious of these calculators, plug in this and you have future success. i think it s too simplistic. but what i do like about it is i like the idea of parents looking when a child is born and saying, what risks does this child have, because that s the period of time, gretchen, when parents are most susceptible to making changes. if you re pregnant and off newborn coming and they say to
gretchen: there is a big piece that got into the studio as well. we re smelling it. brian: they only left us one piece. 27 minutes before the top of the hour. headlines. gretchen: last night, another person has passed away from the meningitis scare. this time in tennessee. it brings the total number of deaths from the outbreak to nine. there are now 105 cases in nine states, but the cdc says as many as 13,000 people may have been exposed to the disease. dr. mark siegle from our medical a team joined us earlier and said only people who received a tainted shot are at risk. if you tracked it and you knew you got an injection that came from the pharmacy f a few weeks go by maximum of three to four weeks and you haven t gotten sick, you re not going to get this. gretchen: symptoms include headache, fever, nausea, stiff neck. the massachusetts pharmacy which made the shots used to treat back pain have recalled all of their products now. brian: israel making a major military move
like gambling. here is how one researcher describes it. it works on a chemical glutamate. so there is thought that it may be responsible for people having obsesstive compulsive disorder and these compulsive behaviors. heather: dr. mark siegle is a member of the fox news medical a team and professor of medicine at nyu medical center and joins us now with more. hello. hi, heather. heather: tell us about this study. first of all, my big question, how could the two possibly be related, alzheimer s and any sort of compulsive disorder? as that doctor said, there is a hormone in the brain and it s conceivable that lacking it, that this drug does, could conceivably cut down on obsesstive compulsive behaviors, including been a shopaholic, which 80% of shopaholics are women. gregg: really? heather: i don t like shopping. i m kind of the weird one in that. i don t like it at all. you re too busy work.