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Interactive Food Atlas (USDA, Economic Research Service, January, 2011)

USDA’s Your Food Environment Atlas is a web-based mapping tool that allows users to compare U.S. counties in terms of their “food environment” – factors such as proximity to grocery stores and restaurants, food expenditures, food insecurity, food assistance, food prices, health, physical activity, and socio-economic characteristics.

USDA’s Your Food Environment Atlas is a web-based mapping tool that allows users to compare U.S. counties in terms of their “food environment” – factors such as proximity to grocery stores and restaurants, food expenditures, food insecurity, food assistance, food prices, health, physical activity, and socio-economic characteristics.

The map below shows adult obesity rates in 2007.

 

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