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GET OFF YOUR COLLECTIVE ASSES AND GO TO THE GYM!!!
NEW YORK, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The results are in and all bets are
off - - Sin City weighs in as the metropolis with the most pounds. Las
Vegas has been named the fattest city in the U.S. in Men's Fitness' "9th
Annual Fattest and Fittest Cities in America Report." San Antonio comes in
at #2, up ten spots from 2006, while Miami put on a few pounds to move to
#3, followed by Mesa, AZ, and Los Angeles. On the other side of the scale,
Albuquerque ranks as the fittest city in America, followed by Seattle,
Colorado Springs, Minneapolis, and Tucson.
To compile the report, Men's Fitness spent months pouring over data
that make real people fit or fat, including how much residents are
excising, how healthfully they eat, how much they use gym memberships, how
much junk food they consume, and how much time they spend sitting in
traffic. Men's Fitness also talks to mayors and city parks departments to
learn about local exercise venues, programs designed to get citizens off
their couches and moving, and civic leadership.
Las Vegas residents can thank the high number of fast-food restaurants
-- more than any other city on the survey (except Cleveland), and extremely
inactive residents. Seven out of ten residents of Las Vegas are so
sedentary that doctors say they're putting their health at risk.
The complete list of the "Fattest and Fittest Cities in America"
appears in the March issue of Men's Fitness, on-sale nationwide today.
The Top 10 Fattest Cities in 2007
2007 RANKING LAST YEAR
1. Las Vegas 2
2. San Antonio 12
3. Miami 14
4. Mesa, AZ 10
5. Los Angeles 3
6. Houston 5
7. Dallas 4
8. El Paso 8
9. Detroit 15
10. San Jose 24
The Top 10 Fittest Cities in 2007
2007 RANKING LAST YEAR
1. Albuquerque 13
2. Seattle 8
3. Colorado Springs 6
4. Minneapolis 21
5. Tucson 4
6. Denver 20
7. San Francisco 7
8. Baltimore 1
9. Portland 17
10. Honolulu 2
The Junk Food Capital: Cleveland
The Most Athletic City: Milwaukee
The City That Watches the Most TV: Memphis
The City With the Best Eating Habits: Oakland, CA
GET OFF YOUR COLLECTIVE ASSES AND GO TO THE GYM!!!
From the amount of participation over on the Body Solutions board, that doesn't surprise me.
WTF???? Enchilladas, Tortillas, BBQ sammiches, fried fish, tamales, chicharones, refried beans, and Carnitas arent healthy????
That's why I love this city. I'm thin compared to most people.
I HATE finishing behind Seattle in just about everything!
T Park has some splainin' to do.
San Antonio has Dallas beat in this power ranking!
This has to be bull . Seattle has mostly fat es up there.
no wonder its a depressing city.
Well of course you and the other three people who post in there are exempt.
I barely saw any "fat es" when I lived in Seattle. On the contrary most people were quite fit and the overweight ones were not grossly so.
Is anybody seriously surprised by this?
I am interested in what Buddy Holly's spin on this would be though.
Sounds like heaven to me.
Okay, I'm going to the gym now. Who's with me?
If by gym you mean bar, I'm there.
They have bars in the gym, midge. So, you coming?
The Men's Fitness survey consistently has been full of every year.
Their criteria are utter bull . A Philly cheesesteak is "healthy food," while a protein shake is "junk food."
There is actual data on which cities have the most obese people. San Antonio usually ranks at or near the top.
Seriously, read the results. Milwaukee is the "most athletic" city. Residents of Oakland have the healthiest eating habits. Last year, Baltimore of all places was the "healthiest city." It is complete and utter bull . They have to tweak the criteria every year to try to get results that are halfway credible and yet still fail.
This survey pisses me off because it is utterly baseless, yet people will quote it all year as if it were scientific.
Utterly baseless maybe, but come on. Have you looked at the driver next to you at any given time and at any given place in San Antonio? Chances are, they're fat.
I think they base it also on on many health clubs there are in the city?
San Antonio should be #1 or #2 every single year. The only city that could compare to the disgusting tubs of lard in the Alamo City was New Orleans, but now too much of its population has been dispersed. That SA could have been as low as #12 is absurd.
But be that as it may, the criteria Men's Fitness uses have a middling-at-best correlation to actual fitness. They don't know what they are talking about, yet arrogate authoritativeness. It reminds me of a survey Money magazine used to do on the "Best Places to Live in America."
One year Laredo, TX came in first. They discontinued the survey after that.
I joined at the YMCA this afternoon, thank you very much.
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