Re:Mapping Neighborhood-Level Obesity in the United States
by tyh on Friday October 09, 2015 @10:34AM
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My cursory glance seems to suggest higher obesity neighborhoods tend to be lower income ones. Though that observation is completely anecdotal based on my life experiences living in different parts of the country.
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Re:Mapping Neighborhood-Level Obesity in the United States
by reedk on Friday October 09, 2015 @11:23AM
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The USDA made a neighborhood-level map of "food deserts"-- communities where a significant portion of residents do not have easy access to large grocery stores and healthy food options. http://www.ers.usda.gov/data/fooddesert/ It would be interesting to see the two maps layered.
Re:Mapping Neighborhood-Level Obesity in the United States
by sageabilly on Friday October 09, 2015 @11:09AM
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Yeah, that divide is extremely well delineated in DC, in an incredibly freaky way. Although I was quite interested to see the diversity of the pixelation in Great Falls which is one of the wealthiest areas of Fairfax County/ DC Suburbs. I suppose if you're really really rich you either take great pains to be in incredible shape or you just let yourself go completely.
Re:Mapping Neighborhood-Level Obesity in the United States
by alistairSH on Friday October 09, 2015 @02:54PM
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I just noticed the same (and made a similar comment in response elsewhere).
Re:Mapping Neighborhood-Level Obesity in the United States
by divers1776 on Friday October 09, 2015 @11:23AM
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I noticed the exact same thing!
Re:Mapping Neighborhood-Level Obesity in the United States
by onion2k on Friday October 09, 2015 @10:53AM
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It'd be easy plot income levels on the same map to see how the two correlate. It'd be interesting to plot other things like branches of chain restaurants, proximity to gyms, etc too.