[audio mp3="https://heritageradionetwork.org/sites/default/files/wp-uploads/2015/10/Health-Lifestyle-Bug-Goo-in-Your-Updo.mp3"][/audio] Next time you’re impressed with how long your hair held that curl, thank a lac insect and its generous secretions for making that possible. Hairspray and other cosmetics contain many ingredients with natural but unexpected origins. Hosts Carmen Devito and Alice Marcus Kreig unearth the links between nature...

Continuing with the beauty and botanical series, Alice Marcus Krieg and Carmen Devito welcome beauty expert Trae Bodge to detail her favorite plant based productions on this week's We Dig Plants. Sharing a great detail of fascinating facts about ingredients like blueberries, chocolate, and even coffee for skin care, Trae...

Continuing the series on the intersection between plants and beauty regimes, solo host Carmen Devito welcomes Mandi Vance from the Dr. Hauschka team to this week's We Dig Plants. Dr. Hauschka Skin Care preparations and treatment methods are based on the founder's mission "to support the healing of humanity and...

Katy Keiffer is talking antibiotic resistance as seen in ground turkey on this week's What Doesn't Kill You with Dr. Urvashi Rangan. Urvashi Rangan, Ph.D. leads and directs the Consumer Safety and Sustainability Group for Consumer Reports. She is responsible for managing risk analysis, policy assessments, label evaluations and consumer...

Want to learn some different ways to prepare offal? On this week's episode of Cooking Issues, Dave Arnold and Nastassia Lopez talk about cooking variety meats sous vide. How can you cook organ meats in a bag without having them get mushy? Dave also talks about heating elements, and discusses...

Alec Bradford of Leaping Waters Farms talks about what it takes to run a farm and raise rare breeds. Also on the show, Steve Pope Mike Edison.

Rachel Wharton hosts a diet themed episode of Brooklyn Eats with guests Alex Van Buren Rebecca Marx. The fun part about the show: diets are not encouraged.