Infographic of the Week: The Weight of the Union

03 Feb 2012

Today’s infographic follows on the heels of last week’s amazingly popular Carbs are Killing You visual and the lively conversation, and wish list for health and nutrition apps, that followed.

Designed for Anytime Fitness and based on the fitness and nutritional habits of its 1.3 million members, the visual looks at the numbers behind obesity – how expensive it is to be overweight ($2.4 billion spent on diet foods), how much more food people are eating (portion sizes are 2-5 times larger) and the amount of time we spend on activities (95% of people don’t do any daily physical activity).

While the infographic also includes an ad (right in the middle) for Anytime Fitness, it also provides useful information collected from reputable sources like the CDC and the Let’s Move campaign.

About the Author

Beth Hoffman has reported on food and agriculture for ten years, airing on NPR, The World, Latino USA, Living on Earth, KUER and KALW , and studied the food system in depth as a fellow and co-lecturer in the Africa Reporting Project at UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism. Hoffman competed a year long documentary project cooking with immigrant women in their homes, has traveled to India, Uganda and Ethiopia to report on rice production and chicken farming, and did a multipart series for KUER on the artistic, cultural and environmental connections we have to food. In addition to spending many hours on-farm in Utah, California and abroad, Hoffman also married into an Iowa farm family and is currently working with her husband to slowly convert the land into a sustainable orchard and hog farm. She currently lives in Albany, California. Hoffman’s previous work can be found on her website at bethaudio.com.

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