Gina Renee, L.Ac.- Gentle Acupuncture and Holistic Nutrition

20. What's Wrong with Plastic? – Well, besides the fact that plastics leach dangerous, hormone-disrupting chemicals into our food and beverages, there are other disturbing facts, including this: except for the very small about of plastic that has been incinerated -- EVERY BIT OF PLASTIC EVER MADE STILL EXISTS! Tune in to learn from Ximena Weissbluth, Marine Debris educator with the Surfrider Foundation, who will tell us how plastics are devastating birds and marine life; and Carolyn Swanson, founder of Passion Purveyors, a local distributor of green goods -- biodegradable and compostable food-service disposables, such as cups, containers, Styrofoam alternatives and more. This is a must-listen. Tune in to learn how we can help save our oceans and improve our own health by using alternatives to plastics, Styrofoam and other petroleum based products.

21. Hospital Stay Handbook – Even though we rely on holistic medicine to keep us well, we never know when we may have to depend on hospitals and doctors for emergency or intensive treatment. Jari Holland Buck is the author of "The Hospital Stay Handbook: A Guide to becoming a Patient Advocate for your Loved Ones". Jari's guidebook helps people get better health care, become healthier caregivers, and feel more secure navigating the hospital and medical systems.

22. Angel Healing – Meet Claire Candy Hough, Reiki Master/Teacher and Angel Intuitive Counselor. Claire Candy helps people to fashion a beautiful life and ultimately heal themselves from within using her ability as an Angelic intuitive. A truly inspirational program.

23. Moth Talk – Get the updated scoop on what's happening with the Light Brown Apple Moth and learn more about what you can do to protect yourself from another round of spraying. You'll hear from Elsa Dooling, community educator with Pesticide Watch and Jo Harding, an extremely knowledgeable and active community member.

24. The Kitchen Transition – When it comes right down to it, most of us want to be healthier, but just don't really know how to make it happen. Learn how to get started making "the kitchen transition" by getting rid of six ingredients lurking in your pantry that compromise your health. You'll also learn why these foods should be eliminated from your kitchen for good and what foods to replace them with. Get ready to clean out your cupboards and give your kitchen and your life an easy and healthy make-over!

25. Is Your Space Green? – Have you been wanting to join the green movement, but not sure where to start? Join me as I talk with Lydia Corser, owner and founder of Greenspace in Santa Cruz, a unique retail showroom and education center specializing in green products for the home and business. Learn how start living green by making simple changes in your lifestyle and your living space that will improve your health and well being and support the environment, as well.

26. Defy Diabetes – I'm going to give it to you straight. Learn how you can protect yourself and your children from diabetes. And if you happen to have insulin-dependent type 1 diabetes, learn how you can enhance your state of health and well being to live a longer, healthier and more vibrant life.

27. More Raw Talk – Join me and Nancy Broderick, the Raw Food Chick for more talk about living a raw foods lifestyle. This program is full of easy tips for bringing more fresh, live, raw foods into your life. I'm living raw and loving it!! Take a listen!

28. Boost Your Libido Naturally – Want to spice up your love life? Start in the kitchen!! Learn recipes to spice up your sex life, boost your libido and live longer. I'll talk to you about the foods and nutrients that promote performance as well as pleasure in the bedroom.

29. Fat Rehab – Confused about which fats are healthy and which ones aren't? I'm going to give you the skinny on fats. Find out which fats are essential, nourishing and even help you to lose weight -- and which fats can cause cancer, heart disease, immune system dysfunction, sterility, learning disabilities, growth problems, diabetes and osteoporosis.

30. Straight Talk About Posture and Your Health – Improper body mechanics can cause pain, limited range of motion, wear and tear on our joints, headaches, TMJ, impaired lymph drainage, increased stress -- even wrinkles and cellulite!! Get straight talk about proper posture and body mechanics from Diane Whitacre of PositionBody.com.

31. Straight Talk about Vitamins and Supplements – I'll give you some straight talk about vitamin and mineral supplements. Learn if you need them, what to look for in a brand, and what is worth your money and what is not.

32. What's in a Label? – "All natural"..."Cage Free"..."Certified Organic"..."Grass-fed"..."post-consumer recycled"...what does it all really mean?? Learn what labels really mean so that you can make an informed choice about how healthy, non-toxic or green a product really is.

Hungry for more? Tune in every week! Health Talk with Gina Renee – Thursdays at 4:05 on Historic NewsTalk 1240 KNRY. Or, listen live on the web at www.knry.com.

1. How to Conquer Candida – So .. just how long have you felt this way? Bloated. Gassy. Fatigued. Are you always craving bread? Pasta? Pastries or other sweets? Is it often hard to concentrate? Do you suffer from skin rashes? Fungal infections? Constipation or diarrhea? IBS? Fibromyalgia? Sinus problems? Migraines? ADD? Learn how Candida devastates our health and what you can do to conquer it.

2. Probiotics for Life – Guest, Hal MacDonald with Natural Energetics, helps to teach us how Probiotics are essential in controlling Candida, supporting our immune function, eliminating allergies and benefiting our health in all aspects.

3. Ex-Sugar Addict Reveals…..Life is Sweeter without Sugar! Sugar robs us of our energy, our vitality, our health and our youth. It makes us fat, sick (even cancer cells love sugar), confused, bloated, sleepy, gassy, yeasty, pimply, achy and shaky. Learn how to lick the sugar habit for good.

4. Living on Live Raw Foods – Guest Nancy Broderick, the Raw Food Chick, helps to teach us how to incorporate more raw foods into our lifestyle to look and feel great.

5. Exposing Supermarket Fat Traps – Ever wonder WHY you can’t eat just one? Join me as I expose ingredients that turn us into eating machines, make us fat and keep us unhealthy.

6. The Milk Mystery – Does milk really do a body good? Or is it really just sterilized cow pus laden with hormones, antibiotics and other strange ingredients? And what about raw milk? Join me and my guest, Collette Cassidy of Claravale Farm to find out.

7. Water for Life – Confused about sources of water? How much water should we be drinking? Tap or bottled? Purified or spring? Join me along with Dr. Hulstedt and Lisa Fritz from the Health and Water Store in Pacific Grove to find out more.

8. Helping Our Body to Detox – Join me and my guest Dr. Shanhang Lu to learn how to take a more proactive approach in reducing toxin exposure and enhancing toxin elimination.

9. Are the Chemicals in Your Cosmetics Making You Sick? – Did you know that over the course of 60 years, a woman can absorb over 30 pounds of moisturizing ingredients into her bloodstream??!! And that's excluding any other cosmetics -- she may eat close to 4 pounds of lipstick! Everything that we put on our skin gets absorbed into our bloodstream. We should be just as careful of what we put ON our skin as what we put IN our mouths! What cosmetics, skin care, lotions, deodorants, hair products or perfumes is your skin drinking every day?? Learn about what's lurking in your cosmetics and some solutions for natural beauty. Listening to this program might just save your looks...and your life.

10. Organic Housekeeping – In some households, the air INSIDE may be as toxic as the air outside! Cleaning agents contain some very toxic chemical ingredients that compromise our immune systems. Large numbers of people with allergies and other autoimmune diseases are being made sicker by their homes! Learn tips from Ellen Sandbeck, author of Organic Housekeeping, on how to keep a healthy home by using natural, nontoxic cleaning agents.

11. Soul Wisdom – Your soul can guide you and empower you to heal. Learn joyful and practical ways to heal, accelerate your soul journey and transform your life with my special guest, Dr. Sha. An extraordinary healer, advanced spiritual master and inspired teacher, Dr. Sha is the author of New-York Times best-seller Soul Mind Body Medicine - A Complete Soul Healing System for Optimum Health and Vitality and his latest Soul Wisdom 1. This is a passionate and lively program -- a must-listen.

12. The Top 5 Best & Worst Foods of All Time – Come on...I know you want to know!!! Because food has the power to heal...and also the potential to harm...don't you want to know some of the best foods to help you get healthy and stay healthy? Good! And I thought you might also like to know some foods that are best left uneaten...

13. Why Poison the Planet? Go Organic!! – You've heard me promote organic now for years....Now you can get the real scoop on organic vs conventional from Juan Perez, a local organic farmer. JP created J&P Organics to bring us fruits and vegetables as nature intended. Industrial conventional farms in America use a chemical cocktail of pesticides to produce a truly toxic harvest. These chemicals are not only polluting the earth's soil and waterways, but they are becoming lodged in the bodies of all wild life and stored in the tissues of our bodies -- even showing up in human breast milk. Organic farming protects and feeds the soil naturally to grow nourishing, nutrient-rich foods, and JP delivers them right to your door through Community Supported Agriculture! Learn how you can support JP in nurturing the earth, saving our natural resources and be rewarded with the healthiest organic produce to nourish your body.

14. Are Microwaves Safe? What about Plastic? – Most of us love our microwaves -- and there's some of us who would not know how to cook or re-heat food without them! But have you ever wondered how "nuking" your food might affect it's nutrient value? Microwaving creates friction within food molecules and their structures are literally torn apart and deformed. Hospitals and La Leche League advise that mothers do not heat breast milk in microwaves, even at low temperatures, not only because the milk gets heated unevenly, but also because important immune-building properties in the milk are lost. What does that tell us about other foods? In addition to the very controversial subject of microwaves, learn more about the hormone-disrupting effects of plastics in our environment. And what about microwaving food in plastic containers?? Guess you'll have to listen to find out!

15. Raw Milk in Jeopardy – Raw milk in California is in jeopardy due to new a new bill by the California Department of Food and Agriculture that restricts the production of raw milk, which is just another step in the State's campaign to pasteurize or sterilize everything. This bill will seriously affect our access to raw milk in California. Tune in to hear Ron Garthwaite and Collette Cassady of our local Claravale Farm, where they have been producing the highest quality, clean, safe raw milk for over 80 years. They will give us the true story behind raw milk, the health benefits and how we can fight for our right to pure, unadulterated food.

16. Having Fun with Anger – I don't know about you, but I know very few people that don't have unresolved anger issues. Just as we need to cleanse our physical bodies of toxins, it is equally important (if not more so) to do emotionally, because any negative emotion left untended or unexpressed becomes toxic. Robin Rosenzweig, our Internal Fitness Trainer, helps us to build a relationship with this prickly, powerful and beneficial emotion and gives some creative and fun ways to express it and purge it. GREAT program with some very fun tips!

17. Getting Physically Fit at the New Year and All Year – Ready to get fit?? Tune in because I have Matt Lamarque in the studio to tell us how to do it right. Matt is the owner of Garden Health and Fitness, a personal trainer extraordinaire, the developer of Bovine Strength Systems, and not to mention a world-renowned, top-ranked power lifter beyond compare. (Get this -- in 2005, Matt bench-pressed 801.2 pounds! That's roughly the weight of two silver-back gorillas! Yikes!) Matt gives us some safe, practical and motivating tips on how to get strong, healthy and fit.

18. Do You Know Your Life Purpose? – We all want to live a meaningful life. To do that, we need to be explicitly aware of our life purpose. Tune in to this wonderful, lively program to hear from two experts on this subject, Amos Lovell and Molly Burke of Life Purpose Works. Using a unique, fun and efficient method, they will help us to quickly and easily uncover and clarify our own essential Life Purpose. This life purpose discovery process works. Check it out!

19. Heal Your Cold or Flu Naturally – Have you been sniffling and stuffy and miserable with a cold that just won't go away? Join the crowd. This has been one heck of a "cold and flu season". I thought now might be a good time to give you some tips on how to heal that cold or flu naturally... Learn how natural medicine can help with those chills, sniffles, sore throat, or fever in a safe, non-toxic way that doesn't bombard your body with harmful chemicals, vaccines or antibiotics.

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