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Mapping Food Illness
07:16 - 12:06 (04:50)
The use of heat maps to categorize occurrences of food poisoning in various states helps to classify it as a disease that is influenced by the environment rather than personal ethics or failures.
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Researchers and public health professionals are advocating for a new conversation about obesity, reclassifying it as a disease influenced by the environment rather than a failure of personal ethics, as exemplified by heat maps illustrating levels of obesity in different US states.
07:16 - 10:31 (03:15)
Summary
Researchers and public health professionals are advocating for a new conversation about obesity, reclassifying it as a disease influenced by the environment rather than a failure of personal ethics, as exemplified by heat maps illustrating levels of obesity in different US states.
ChapterMapping Food Illness
EpisodeThe Obesity Epidemic
PodcastMaintenance Phase
Starting in the late 1990s, maps of obesity rates began spreading and catching on, ultimately leading to public health officials referring to obesity as an epidemic.
10:31 - 12:06 (01:34)
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Starting in the late 1990s, maps of obesity rates began spreading and catching on, ultimately leading to public health officials referring to obesity as an epidemic. Medical institutions started defining overweight and obesity as diseases in the years to come, but even today there is a lack of consensus on the matter.