Health Statistics of 500 US Cities – Map and Sortable Table
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#2Wow the bay area scores pretty bad on all of them.
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#3Obesity is through the roof, people over eat like crazy and don't move around enough.
How much of our nations skyrocketing health care costs are directly and indirectly related to obesity? Probably a stunningly high percentage.
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#4Obesity is through the roof, people over eat like crazy and don't move around enough. How much of our nations skyrocketing health care costs are directly and indirectly related to obesity? Probably a stunningly high percentage.
You are making an assumption that obesity is because people overeat, and that "moving around" is somehow a counter to that.
Have you considered the amount of sugar found in virtually all SAD based food could be the problem? (Setting aside the movement debate and the false premise it creates about energy in vs energy out).
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#5Obesity is through the roof, people over eat like crazy and don't move around enough. How much of our nations skyrocketing health care costs are directly and indirectly related to obesity? Probably a stunningly high percentage.
You are making an assumption that obesity is because people overeat, and that "moving around" is somehow a counter to that. Have you considered the amount of sugar found in virtually all SAD based food could be the problem? (Setting aside the movement debate and the false premise it creates about energy in vs energy out).
SAD=standard American diet
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#6Obesity is through the roof, people over eat like crazy and don't move around enough. How much of our nations skyrocketing health care costs are directly and indirectly related to obesity? Probably a stunningly high percentage.
You are making an assumption that obesity is because people overeat, and that "moving around" is somehow a counter to that. Have you considered the amount of sugar found in virtually all SAD based food could be the problem? (Setting aside the movement debate and the false premise it creates about energy in vs energy out).
This.
There was a study I'm struggling to find at the moment, that I saw via HN, that claimed childhood obesity is more dependent on what people eat than when they eat it or how much.
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#7Ugh... ESRI, is the one reason why I didn't get into Geography. I wanted get into datascience that lean toward maps but seeing the monopoly that ESRI has and no open source alternative it was clear, in my opinion, that that market growth is will be slow and the potential will not be as great.
I'm leaning toward medical data and NLP now.
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#8Obesity is through the roof, people over eat like crazy and don't move around enough. How much of our nations skyrocketing health care costs are directly and indirectly related to obesity? Probably a stunningly high percentage.
You are making an assumption that obesity is because people overeat, and that "moving around" is somehow a counter to that. Have you considered the amount of sugar found in virtually all SAD based food could be the problem? (Setting aside the movement debate and the false premise it creates about energy in vs energy out).
Too much sugar is definitely a problem, but if obesity were solely due to sugar in "virtually all SAD based food" then everybody would be obese across the board. That's not what the data shows, though.
And even if sugar were the main factor, OP's post would still be technically correct, because the underlying problem would be overeating foods with sugar, possibly in addition to overeating other foods.
This may be an unpopular view, but there's no getting around the fact that obesity in most adults is caused by poor decision making around food and exercise.
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#9Ugh... ESRI, is the one reason why I didn't get into Geography. I wanted get into datascience that lean toward maps but seeing the monopoly that ESRI has and no open source alternative it was clear, in my opinion, that that market growth is will be slow and the potential will not be as great. I'm leaning toward medical data and NLP now.
OpenStreetMap would be fine as the base map there. There's nice clean tiles available from several providers.
And while I am not experienced with them, I believe both Leaflet and OpenLayers would work well to build the interactive part of the map.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are making an assumption that obesity is because people overeat, and that "moving around" is somehow a counter to that. Have you considered the amount of sugar found in virtually all SAD based food could be the problem? (Setting aside the movement debate and the false premise it creates about energy in vs energy out).
Too much sugar is definitely a problem, but if obesity were solely due to sugar in "virtually all SAD based food" then everybody would be obese across the board. That's not what the data shows, though. And even if sugar were the main factor, OP's post would still be technically correct, because the underlying problem would be overeating foods with sugar, possibly in addition to overeating other foods. This may be an…
The last time I bought 'healthy' food, I couldn't use it before it's shelf life expired. Smaller portions are prohibitively expensive (it costs less for me to get something that looks better, tastes better, and has more variety going out to eat).
It also isn't cost effective for me to make the time to make my own food, even ignoring the cost of the ingredients; aside from simple things that use mostly non-perishable ingredients.
However, even going out to eat, the incentive to buy in bulk /there/ exists too. Purchase of a single meal that should fill someone up for a day has a substantial discount over getting what should be a properly sized portion for a small regular meal.
For all sides, the market incentives push towards over-consumption which is why we have the outcome we do.
I recall hearing that the cost of labor was actually one of the primary factors in meal price.