Healthy Moments Radio Broadcast
One-minute tips on living a healthy lifestyle featuring Dr. Griffin Rodgers, Director of NIDDK.
Healthy Moments is a series of weekly radio episodes sponsored by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Healthy Moments features Dr. Griffin P. Rodgers, the Director of NIDDK, a renowned researcher in the area of sickle cell anemia.
Each week Dr. Rodgers offers tips on how to prevent and control diseases that are important to the community and NIDDK’s mission.
Guests on Healthy Moments have included Kimberly Plummer, Sugar Ray Leonard, Peggy Lewis, Sean Elliott, Dr. Stephen James, Dr. Susan Yanovski, Dr. David Nathan, Pastor David Cobb, Dr. Larry Agodoa, Dr. Gary Gibbons, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Janine Austin Clayton, Dr. Stephen Katz, Dr. Josie Briggs, Dr. Richard Hodes, Dr. Walter Koroshetz, Dr. Paul Sieving, Dr. Nora Valkow, Dr. Roderic Pettigrew, Dr. Perez-Stable, Mr. Eric Dishman, Dr. Joshua Gordon, and more!
To hear tips on how to stay healthy, tune in to Healthy Moments
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On occasion, you can hear Healthy Moments on the Tom Joyner Morning Show nationwide.
Episodes
Each episode is 1 minute in length.
Before a new drug can land on pharmacy shelves, it must be FDA-approved. Learn how that happens.
What physical activity burns calories, increases energy, strengthens bones, lowers the risk of health problems, and doesn’t cost a cent?
Having trouble finding time for exercise at this busy time of year? Dr. Rodgers provides tips!
Dr. Rodgers discusses the two keys to losing weight and keeping it off.
Learn about the updated Sisters Together program that encourages black women to take steps toward better health for their community.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the NIAID at NIH, discusses what it means for those who are HIV-positive to be durably virally suppressed, preventing transmission of HIV to sexual partners.
Dr. Rodgers provides mothers who had gestational diabetes with guidelines for getting tested for type 2 diabetes after delivery.
Dr. Rodgers explains that the mom and child affected by gestational diabetes will have a lifetime risk of developing type 2 diabetes and offers tips for preventing or delaying it.
Dr. Rodgers describes gestational diabetes, a condition usually without symptoms that affects some pregnant women and can lead to problems for mother and baby if left untreated.
More from Dr. Rodgers and NIDDK on Twitter
Get tips on living a healthy lifestyle and updates on the latest scientific research from @NIDDKgov. Tweets by the Director, Dr. Griffin Rodgers, are signed -GR.