Maps/Apps

These online tools and calculators help you see and measure obesity issues and trends within your geographic area.

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83rd Legislature Watch Get the latest on proposed obesity-related legislation from the 83rd Texas Legislature... Read More >	County Maps Show Effects of Food Environments This USDA tools offers interactive, county-level maps with 168 food environment indicators such as such as food prices and nutrition assistance programs. Read More >
Start Walking Now The American Heart Association offers information and motivation to help you walk your way to fitness. Start Walking Now can track you walks and help you find nearby walkling routes. It can also connect you with walking clubs in your area... Read More >	USDA Helps Fill Your Plate With Nutritious Food Choose My Plate provides tips and resources for making and executing healthy dietary choices. Make budget-friendly and healthy food choices and track your progress to your health goals. The site includes tips, menus, guidelines, contests and games designed to encourage healthy eating. Read More >
Find Nearby Parks and Natural Resources with Nature Rocks The Nature Rocks web application allows you to enter your city or postal code and see all the natural places in your area to walk, bike, hike and more. Read More >	USDA Tool Helps Give Nutrional Lowdown On Foods Use this interactive tool from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to search for nutritional information on more than 8,000 foods, searchable by food item, food group or list. Read More >
States of Obesity: Trends Across The U.S What's your state doing to fight obesity? This comprehensive Centers for Disease Control and Prevention database chronicles state legislative and regulatory efforts to improve nutrition and promote physical activity Read More >	What's In Your Food? USDA Tool Keeps You Informed As part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Choose My Plate site, users can look up a food to get quick access to nutritional information for more than 8,000 foods. They can also choose and compare foods, all the better to make an informed, healthy choice. Read More >
Body Mass Indicator (BMI) Calculator The National Heart Lung and Blood Institute site offers this BMI Calculator, which uses a person's height and weight to determine if they are overweight or obese. Read More >	When To Go and When To Whoa: An Eating Guide What's the difference between a GO food and a WHOA food? This chart developed by the We Can! Program lists foods kids can eat all the time (GO food), sometimes and rarely (WHOA food). Read More >

The 82nd Texas Legislature tasked the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts to build this web portal — a comprehensive, statewide collection of resources and information to help Texans address the economic effects of obesity. In addition, our agency was charged with using fitness data collected by the Texas Education Agency to create GIS maps showing where in Texas students are most at risk for obesity. These maps will help identify the state’s obesity hot spots — areas most in need of targeted intervention.