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The numbers of young people affected by obesity remain at high levels. Learn what you can do to combat childhood obesity.

Donatus U. Ekwueme, PhD1,2, K. Robin Yabroff, PhD2,3, Gery P.

Keren Z. Landman, MD1,2, Kathrine R. Tan, MD2, Paul M.

Every year, cancer claims the lives of nearly 300,000 men in the United States. Men can lower their risk for some of the most common kinds of cancer.

Jessica R. MacNeil, MPH1, Lorry Rubin, MD2, Lucy McNamara, PhD3, Elizabeth C. Briere, MD1, Thomas A.

The Community Preventive Services Task Force recently posted new information on its website: "Promoting Health Equity Through Education Programs and Policies: Full-Day Kindergarten Programs." The information is available at http://www.thecommunityguide.

This study examined patterns of use of flavored tobacco products in a nationally generalizable sample of Canadian students in grades 9 through 12 after the implementation of a national ban on certain flavored tobacco products.

The true prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is unknown. The objective of this study was 1) to provide the most current GDM prevalence reported on the birth certificate and the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) questionnaire and 2) to compare GDM prevalence from PRAMS across 2007–2008 and 2009–2010.

Alberto Díaz-Quiñonez, PhD1, Irma Hernández-Monroy1, Norma Montes-Colima1, Asunción Moreno-Pérez1, Adriana Galicia-Nicolás1, Hugo Martínez-Rojano, PhD1, Concepción Carmona-Ramos, MD2, Miroslava Sánchez-Mendoza, PhD2, José Cruz Rodríguez-Martínez3, Lorena Suárez-Idueta, MD3, María Eugenia Jiménez-Corona, PhD3, Cuitláhuac Ruiz-Matus, MD3, Pablo Kuri-Morales, MD4 (Author affiliations at end of text).

We sought to understand the experiences and perceptions of food producers regarding food procurement programs for local institutions. A total of 72 (45%) Mississippi fruit and vegetable growers completed a mailed survey, and of those that reported selling to local businesses and institutions (54%), few were selling to schools (13%). The primary motivations to sell to institutions were to increase profits (67%) and to improve nutrition within their communities (57%), while the most commonly reported barrier was a lack of knowledge about how to sell to institutions (39%). Farm to institution programs must develop evidence-based practices designed to address barriers to producers’ participation in local institutional food procurement programs.