Tuesday Night

Prog Notes S H 06-05-24

12 AM
About Health
Mental Health
Dr. Michael Lenoir, one of the founders of the program, comes back as a guest host, sitting in for Nurse Rona Renner, and interviews psychiatrist Dr. Ron Bailey about mental health, particularly mental health challenges to Black people and to adolescents

1 AM
Herbal Highway
Well-loved Flowers
We are trimming down this episode that ran during KPFA's recent on air drive, in which they spent time appealing for funds for their station, in order to give you the essential content about edible or brewable flowers and still be able to spend some time appealing to you to support this program as part of Something's Happening, in order to keep KPFK itself on the air.

2 AM
Green Street (back to a version of its old name, instead of "Grassroots")
Big Oil's Dirty Secret
Patti and Doug Wood discuss the failure of the FDA to regulate chemicals in food, and how new language in the farm bill will prohibit states from regulating pesticides. Then author and investigative reporter Justin Nobel talks about the extremely high levels of radiation from fracking and how the industry is trying to keep it quiet.

2:30
Food Sleuth Radio
Shoppers Guide to Pesticides in Produce
Did you know that pesticides are widely used in U.S. agriculture and residues may remain on and in the foods we eat, even after washing or processing? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Alexis Temkin, Ph.D., Toxicologist, at the Environmental Working Group.
Temkin discusses EWGs 2024 Shoppers Guide to Pesticides in Produce, and the related and updated Dirty Dozen/Clean Fifteen Guide to produce shopping. She also discusses vulnerable populations, including children, pregnant women and farm-workers, and the multiple benefits of organic food and farming,

Related website: https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/summary.php
https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/2024/02/ewg-finds-little-known-toxic-chemical-four-out-five-people-tested

3 AM
Whole Mother
Debbie Hull sits in for Pat Jones to look at care for newborns. Marly Hudanish, a Master Newborn Care Specialist (NCS), joins the program to help unpack options for care for the postpartum family. We dive deep on sleep training and how it doesn’t have to mean leaving your baby to cry it out.
More information at https://newborncareexpert.com

4-6 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program
Final two hours from the non-commercial broadcast on June 4, 2024
The gap between CEOs & workers is growing... PLUS, Texas professors want to fail female students who get abortions