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Chronic Disease: Information & Political Activism

Get Informed!

Tobacco
- Tobacco atlas
Excessive alcohol
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Sedentary lifestyle & Physical Activity
- CDC Physical Activity
- WHO Physical Inactivity: A Global Public Health Problem
Nutrition
Corporations & Health Watch
- http://www.corporationsandhealth.org/index.php

Get Involved!

AMSA Health Policy Page & Activism Toolbox
- Activism Toolbox
- Health Policy
Fight Chronic Disease
- http://www.fightchronicdisease.org/index.cfm
Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)
- http://www.cspinet.org
American Cancer Society
- http://www.cancer.org/docroot/home/index.asp
Smoking in movies efforts
- http://scenesmoking.org
- http://www.smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu/problem/index.html
AMA
- http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/medical-students/medical-students.shtml

FRIGHTENING
Obesity Trends:

We challenge you to find anything that puts obesity in better perspective than this: Click on the map and scroll down to the dynamic U.S. obesity map. Over only TWO decades most states went from <10% obesity to >20%.