Diabetes Prevention Programs

[Photo credit: PracticalCures.com]
[Photo credit: PracticalCures.com]
The American Diabetes Association estimates that the total national cost of diagnosed diabetes in the United States is $245 billion per year. This is roughly equivalent to the annual cost of all workplace injuries and illnesses in the U. S. A considerable proportion of diabetes is preventable. On this program we discuss the State of Alaska Diabetes Prevention Programs.
GUESTS:
  • Erin C Widener, YMCA, Anchorage
  • Leslie Shallcross, MS, RDN, LD, Associate Professor of Extension – Youth, Family and Community Development, UAF School of Natural Resources and Extension.

LINKS:

PARTICIPATE:

  • Call 550-8433 (Anchorage) or 1-888-353-5752  (statewide) during the live broadcast (2:00 – 3:00pm)
  • Send email to lineone@alaskapublic.org before, during or after the live broadcast (e-mails may be read on air)
  • Post your comment or question below (comments may be read on air)

LIVE BROADCAST: Monday, August 22, 2016, at 2:00 p.m. AKDT

REPEAT BROADCAST:  Monday, August 22, 2016, at 8:00 p.m. AKDT

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Eric Bork, or you can just call him “Bork” because everybody else does, is the FM Operations Manager for KSKA-FM. He oversees the day-to-day operations of the FM broadcast. He produces and edits episodes of Outdoor Explorer, the Alaska-focused outdoors program. He also maintains the web posts for that show. You may have heard him filling in for Morning Edition or hosting All Things Considered and can still find him operating the soundboard for any of the live broadcast programs.

After escaping the Detroit area when he was 18, Bork made it up to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where he earned a degree in Communications/Radio Broadcasting from Northern Michigan University. He spent time managing the college radio station, working for the local NPR affiliate, and then in top 40 radio in Michigan before coming to Alaska to work his first few summers. After then moving to Chicago, it only took five years to convince him to move back to Alaska in 2010. When not involved in great radio programming he’s probably riding a bicycle, thinking about riding bicycles, dreaming about bikes, reading a book, or planning the next place he’ll travel to. Only two continents left to conquer!

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