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Obesity Influences

Posted in Obesity, Visual on August 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »

I love, love, love this diagram (HT Hugh for the pointer). It’s a visual representation of something I’ve long maintained: obesity is a wicked problem. One caveat: IMO, the diagram is a tool for looking at obesity from a public health perspective, not from an individual perspective. In fact, one of its flaws is that [...]

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What Adam said: Choose real food

Posted in Real food, Visual on July 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Sorry for the light blogging, but between studying for my nutrition mid-term (passed yay!), spending some time at the beach (OBX) and heading off to the Ancestral Health Symposium in a bit, it’ll be another week or so before I can get back on track. In the meantime, check out this great take on the [...]

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What Steve said

Posted in Macronutrients, Visual, Weight loss on July 16, 2011 | 4 Comments »

I love the above graphic from Steve at Diet for Humans, who also writes: Calorie theory is simply wrong, but it just appears to be correct if one has limited experience or a limited frame of reference. I don’t think this means that calories don’t matter at all, but IMO, for many of us, the [...]

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Another update

Posted in Obesity, Policy, Visual on March 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Feeding America has come out with their food insecurity by county map, so I’ve updated my obesity and food deserts post to add it.

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Obesity, food deserts, and well-being

Posted in Obesity, Policy, Visual on March 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

I updated my obesity & food deserts post to include the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index just published by the NY Times. Click on the image to see the larger versions. Are the folks in the southeast heavier because they aren’t as happy? Or are they unhappier because they are heavier? Certainly curious given the recent news [...]

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Fast food: ads vs reality

Posted in Food industry, Visual on February 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Awesome photo essay … check Dario’s blog for much more.

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Obesity and food deserts

Posted in Obesity, Policy, Visual on January 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Correlation is not causation, but this is pretty striking: food deserts (2009) versus obesity rates (2007) by county: Update, 3/7: More food for thought (pun intended). Here’s the 2010 Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. Update, 3/25: And another from Feeding America. Related link: Newsweek’s Divided We Eat: What Food Says About Class in America

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Gillian’s paleo/primal food pyramid

Posted in Ancestral health, Nutrition, Visual on December 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

This is a great graphic that’s an excellent summary of a paleo/primal way of eating: What I like about it is how it emphasizes that: grains, beans/legumes, and added sugars are the essential foods to avoid dairy is optional; while strict Cordain-style paleo makes dairy a no-no, other versions of the diet include dairy, especially [...]

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Obesity is an elephant

Posted in Obesity, Visual on December 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I’m often struck by how much obesity reminds me of the six blind men and the elephant. Pharma folks think it’s all about drugs. Fitness folks think it’s all about exercise. Dieticians think it’s all about cutting out fat or maybe eating multiple smaller meals. Psych folk think it’s about therapy or intuitive eating or [...]

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Great moments (not) in information design

Posted in Visual on January 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I noticed this last night, as did Atrios: Some genius at CNN decided that the best way to present results – both on the pie charts and on the map – was to make Romney deep red, McCain light red, Giuliani orange, Huckabee light orange… Here’s a screen shot from the CNN website:

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