terça-feira, 16 de fevereiro de 2010

Gráficos interessantes

Várias estatísticas nos EUA, separadas por região. Tem um link com mais no final

Your waist in maps:
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The Daily Yonder has a set of great maps up comparing different diet behaviors (fast food spending, soda drinking, meat consumption and so on) with obesity.


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The most interesting, perhaps, is the map showing fruit and vegetable consumption. To my eye, it looks more like the obesity map than, say, the fast food map does. It's a good reminder that what makes people heavy is the consumption of calories. The good calorie/bad calorie dichotomy that has arisen in recent years makes some nutritional sense but, in a society primarily afflicted with overeating, is probably also missing the point. Eating 600 calories of fast food is less likely to make you fat than eating 900 calories of steak and mashed potatoes, even if the latter is homemade.


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More maps here.

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