Karte der amerikanischen Fettleibigkeit
Von AdIcy4323
Karte der amerikanischen Fettleibigkeit
Von AdIcy4323
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I can’t speak for all states but anytime I’ve visited Colorado I can say there’s a higher percentage of hot fit people than elsewhere
Dang why can I see Oklahoma?
What is up with the Appalachian trail blue line?
Cool map thx
Yeah growing up in California I never understood why people always said Americans were so fat. Everywhere I looked, most people were in decent shape. And then I moved to the Midwest and I got it lol. Anytime I visit the south it’s on another level. It’s a different world down there.
Looks a lot like other maps I see
75% of Americans are overweight. If you interact with an American on here, they are, more likely than not, fat.
This is literally a map of the Mississippi River watershed
Correlation between obesity and food insecurity doesn’t make sense
This is what happens when you put gravy on your Twinkies.
I’d be interested to see this map overlayed with relative wealth. Maybe wealth adjusted for local cost of living. Probably correlates to food insecurity though…
It’s fascinating how the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains (or perhaps I 81 corridor?) basically connect a straight line of relative low obesity from Atlanta to Maine.
Fat people don’t go west…
No Alaska or Hawaii?
long live the south
Is this the electoral map?
Show me where the republicans live
Show me where schools are funded
Comparing these maps to [altitude maps](https://gisgeography.com/us-elevation-map/) shows an amazing correllation. Not just the obvious Colorado vs lower Mississippi regions but the altitute/obesity correllation matches throughout specific California and Washington valleys plus Appalachia.
Then there’s the skinny outlier that is South Florida.
As somebody who was born in the west and lived in the south I can confirm. Southern food is so so good! Also we have a cultural problem in the country as a whole to not eat that many fruits and vegetables.
As a Coloradan I’m curious about the Colorado borders with Nebraska and Kansas. There is no discernible difference between those counties culturally. High plains farms and ranches filled with rural Republicans who never left for the big city. If this data is true then I’m wondering what could cause the difference?
Unlimited Steaks Aplenty
The Bible Belt gonna need a few more holes
Miami native here. I think the warm weather encourages people to be in good shape since your body is much more exposed than other places. That plus this being a superficial culture. I would not recommend living here if you are obese the body shaming is bad
The obesity belt
Physically inactive has far less impact than eating the wrong things. 90% of controlling weight happens in the kitchen, and you don’t have to starve yourself. You just have to eat the right things.
I dunno, overlay it with percent African American. Or look up obesity rates by race. Every time you call out „the south“ for some social ill, just remember each of those states is 3x the national average for African American population.
No Hawaii or Alaska!
Overlay that map with a map showing the food ways of different regions.
Some big units in the US
This is interesting! Glad it’s by county. Kinda surprised at the Dakotas TBH. Also the pockets of obesity in the Pacific NW. Also Maine! And what’s with the stripe of blue through the Appalachians?
Grays Harbor? Wyd?
The more “food insecure” – the more obese?
Hard to imagine more nonsensical term.
Fascinating how obviously this correlates with the Acela corridor and access to public transportation and dense walkable cities. When people naturally walk to go places throughout the day they burn the calories they need to stay fit without specifically spending time on ‚exercise‘ as an activity. When you live in the surburbs and drive everywhere you take thousands of less steps every day than you otherwise would.