The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health have failed to effectively address unprecedented increases in chronic disease rates and deaths. U.S. life expectancy is in a three-year-decline. Troublingly, this failure on the part of our public health institutions coincides with shadowy payments made by the pharmaceutical and food/beverage industries to these federal agencies through their respective foundations, the CDC Foundation (FCDC) and the Foundation for the NIH (FNIH).

This collection contains documents CrossFit Inc. obtained from the CDC Foundation in August 2018 through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The compilation includes correspondence relating to the CDC Foundation's legal requirement, under the Public Health Service Act, to include in its annual report the source and amount of all monetary gifts to the foundation, as well as the source and description of all gifts of real or personal property.