Maps of diabetes & obesity

Maps of diabetes & obesity
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Hope readers have a happy Thanksgiving. I assume this is also a day when you’re not going to think too much about your diet and eat what you want to eat. But I thought this map on diabetes and obesity for those age 20 and up was interesting. These are estimates, which I think explains the rather sharp boundaries at state lines (since state level data was probably used to predict county values, see the methods here). To my knowledge the cuisine of the Upper Midwest and New England gets about as much props as that of England (vs. “Southern home cooking”), but hotdish can’t be all that unhealthy? 🙂 H/T Ezra Klein.

Razib Khan