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The obesity epidemic has drawn attention to food marketing practices that may increase the likelihood of caloric overconsumption and weight gain. We explored the associations of discounted prices on supermarket purchases of selected high-calorie foods (HCF) and more healthful, low-calorie foods (LCF) by a demographic group at high risk of obesity.

There is no work quite like public health, and there is no agency quite like CDC. As America's health protection agency, we are unique in our ability to safeguard America's health security 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Until recently, health care systems in the United States often lacked a unified approach to prevent and manage chronic disease. Recent efforts have been made to close this gap through various calls for increased collaboration between public health and health care systems to better coordinate provision of services and programs. Currently, the extent to which the public health workforce has responded is relatively unknown. The objective of this study is to explore health care system collaboration efforts and activities among a population-based sample of state public health practitioners.

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CDC applies the same real-world, science based approach to reducing violence and injuries as it does to preventing infectious and chronic diseases.

CDC.gov provides content in several useful ways, allowing others to help share health information, podcasts and RSS feeds and now Widgets. Our newest features are the Emerging Infectious Disease Widget, Everyday Health Widget, CDC Vital Signs Widget, and the CDC Data and Statistics Widget. Widgets are online applications built by one Web site that can be displayed onto another Web site.