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Your Food Environment Atlas

Summary By: | Published: June 28, 2010
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This article covers a resource created by the USDA that gives information on the availability of healthy foods across the U.S.

Created by the United States Department of Agriculture, this online tool, Your Food Environment Atlas, allows users to map and compare the availability of “healthful” foods across the United States. County-level data and statistics are provided for food availability, health and well-being, and community characteristics. Specific categories include:

  • Access and proximity to grocery stores
  • Availability of food stores
  • Availability of restaurants
  • Expenditures on food at restaurants
  • Food assistance
  • Food eaten at home
  • Food insecurity
  • Food prices (at stores not restaurants)
  • Food taxes
  • Health
  • Local foods
  • Physical activity levels and outlets
  • Socioeconomic characteristics
External Link:
http://ers.usda.gov/foodatlas/
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Citations:

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service,

Tags:

Animals Used for Food English Human Health

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