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Data Visualization: Food Consumption and Obesity Maps

February 16, 2010 – 11:00 pm | by admin

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[ Maps: Daily Yonder ] Daily Yonder , a blog devoted to rural American goings-on, created these fascinating maps about eating habits across the country using the USDA’s Food Environment Atlas. It’s hard to simplify the data into clear, absolute terms, but in most cases, the higher the fruit and vegetable consumption, the lower the obesity rate. Whoa Colorado, you are a pretty skinny state! Here are just two of the many maps Daily Yonder shares relating to food and health. [via Ezra Klein and @gastropoda ] Related Data Visualization: Subway Locations in the U.S. Data Visualization: Distances to Nearest McDonald’s Data Visualization: Soda vs. Pop vs. Whatever

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A horse of a different colour

February 8, 2010 – 4:15 pm | by admin

It’s strange that many of us, when confronted by a tough piece of meat or unpalatable processed salami type of product, are inclined to dismiss it as “Tasting of bloody horsemeat”, strange because I’m sure many of us haven’t ever tasted horsemeat. I know I haven’t and to be perfectly truthful I have no desire to. As far as I am concerned horses should be galloping round race tracks or cantering along sunset beaches, not sizzling on the griddle waiting to be anointed with garlic butter. Of course up to now I’ve always been happy to blame the French for trying popularise the consumption of one of man’s favourite quadrapeds, I’ve found it expedient to blame the French for a lot of things and rather bizarrely no-one seems to rush to their defence on any matter but it seems I may have been mistaken because Italy is the largest consumer of horsemeat in Europe with more than 48,000 metric tonnes eaten every year and it is a common dish among youngsters because of its high iron content. Now I can only presume that they stick it in the salamis because I’ve never heard of…

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