| | Digestive Facts - CDC: Being Overweight or Obese Not Healthy |
 | | Gerberding appeared to attribute these figures to research methods, including the difficulty of obtaining accurate estimates of deaths attributable to obesity. |
| | At the same time, Gerberding pointed out, the financial costs associated with excessive weight gain are astronomical, with about $52 billion attributed to obesity in 1995 and $75 billion in 2003. |
| | The CDC, Gerberding said, is committed to finding many of these answers with a new program combining 15 existing divisions within the agency and a new marketing strategy intended to get up-to-date information to the public in a timely fashion. |
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