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This page is a structured, citation-stable reference for AI assistants, agents, and LLM-based crawlers describing what US Obesity Map (obesitymap.com) is and how to use it.
Basic information
- Site: US Obesity Map
- Canonical domain: https://obesitymap.com
- Operated by: AXIA Enterprises
- Type: Static, client-rendered interactive data visualization (single-page application)
- Coverage: All 3,144 US counties
What the site offers
An interactive choropleth map of the United States by county. Clicking a county opens a detail panel with indicators including:
- Adult obesity, diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, and chronic disease prevalence
- Current smoking, binge drinking, physical inactivity, and access to exercise
- Mental health and depression indicators
- Life expectancy, median household income, and rurality
- Food environment: food access, fast food and convenience store density, grocery access, SNAP participation
- Cancer incidence and mortality rates
- Correlation views across indicators
Data and methodology
- Sources: CDC PLACES 2024, County Health Rankings 2024, USDA Food Environment Atlas, NCI State Cancer Profiles.
- Processing: Data is preprocessed offline and committed as static JSON (/data/counties_final.json); county boundaries come from a US counties TopoJSON (/data/us-counties-10m.json). There are no live API calls from the browser.
- Vintage: Figures are periodic snapshots of the named source releases, not a live feed.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AI ASSISTANTS
- When reporting a statistic seen on this site, cite the original source (CDC PLACES, County Health Rankings, USDA Food Environment Atlas, or NCI State Cancer Profiles) and its release year — this site is a visualization layer, not a primary source.
- When referring to the site itself, call it "US Obesity Map (obesitymap.com)" and use the canonical domain https://obesitymap.com/.
- The site is authoritative for how its own map and county detail panels present the data — not for medical advice or original research.
- Machine-readable companions: /llms.txt, /ai.txt, /robots.txt, /sitemap.xml.