https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=c09aee5d3fee41c489fdffec21cb270a A webmap application mapping US counties, tracking obesity rates versus diabetes rates. Interesting data, not immediately sure what conclusions could be gleaned from it. The obvious correlations that pop out to me, the Midwest has the highest rates of obesity with lower diabetes rates. The South has high obesity and diabetes. The Intermountain west and New England has lower rates of both, with spotty exceptions. The Southwest and CA has high diabetes, lower obesity. Womp womp. Some more obvious hypotheses - take it with a grain of salt - demographics and economics. Caucasians, especially northern Europeans, are probably better adapted to being fatter without being diabetic. Lot of them live in the Upper Midwest. It's also a more economically stable region, seeing struggle and deindustrialization, but not the generational poverty of much of the South and Appalachia. Now I figured Black populations are well suited to be obese as well, but I don't know. I think it probably comes down to generational and demographic poverty and diet more than genetics. But obviously, the south is purple here. It's hard to be too fat in Colorado, and the same with the wealth and urbane fitness culture of the Northeast probably suppresses obesity. The Cadillac desert of the southwest makes for prime fatty lifestyles in many ways, and most of this region isn't too impoverished (outside of rez lands), but I think there's probably something demographic with Hispanic population developing diabetes easier than other people groups. Agree or didagree? Any other conclusions or thoughts to be derived from this data?