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Animated Map of obesity in America: The Last 20 years

by Wade Meredith on July 11th, 2006

Obesity Map Screenie

CDC + MSN = BYOF(at)

This is a pretty cool little animation that MSN posted earlier today, and it kicks off their 4 part series, Fighting the Obesity Epidemic.

One thing to consider that was pointed out by a helpful Boing Boing reader:

Boing Boing-
Jim sez, “One interesting feature of the CDC obesity data is that it’s based on people’s self-reported height and weight collected through telephone surveys, rather than being based on actual measurements of patients reported by doctors and physicians.”

Check it out after the jump!

Obesity in America - MSN (pops)

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