Top 25 Fattest and Fittest cities (suck it Miami!)

[dead0man]

Top Fittest Cities

1. Salt Lake City, UT
2. Colorado Springs, CO
3. Minneapolis, MN
4. Denver, CO
5. Albuquerque, NM
6. Portland, OR
7. Honolulu, HI
8. Seattle, WA
9. Omaha, NE
10. Virginia Beach, VA
11. Milwaukee, WI
12. San Francisco, CA
13. Tucson, AZ
14. Boston, MA
15. Cleveland, OH
16. St. Louis, MO
17. Austin, TX
18. Washington, DC
19. Sacramento, CA
20. Oakland, CA
21. Atlanta, GA
22. Fresno, CA
23. Tampa, FL
24. Nashville-Davidson, TN
25. Pittsburgh, PA

Top Fattest Cities

1. Miami, FL
2. Oklahoma City, OK
3. San Antonio, TX
4. Las Vegas, NV
5. New York, NY
6. Houston, TX
7. El Paso, TX
8. Jacksonville, FL
9. Charlotte, NC
10. Louisville-Jefferson, KY
11. Memphis, TN
12. Detroit, MI
13. Chicago, IL
14. Dallas-Fort Worth, TX
15. San Jose, CA
16. Tulsa, OK
17. Baltimore, MD
18. Columbus, OH
19. Raleigh, NC
20. Philadelphia, PA
21. L.A.-Long Beach, CA
22. Phoenix-Mesa, AZ
23. Indianapolis, IN
24. San Diego, CA
25. Kansas City, MO

[Lunar]

I once saw a list with San Francisco as #1, probably due to Hipsters and Aisnas,

[memphis]

I'm really shocked to see Milwaukee on the fit list given their culture of beer brats and cheese.

[Aizen]

another list where colorado kicks ass imho

[Associate Justice PiT]

I once saw a list with San Francisco as #1, probably due to Hipsters and Aisnas,

     We also have a great public transportation system & at only 49 mi², it's completely possible to live here without owning a car.

[Lunar]

I once saw a list with San Francisco as #1, probably due to Hipsters and Aisnas,

     We also have a great public transportation system & at only 49 mi², it's completely possible to live here without owning a car.

Yeah except BART is awful and only goes North-South (ignoring the fact that the BART police might shoot you while you're down)

[Associate Justice PiT]

I once saw a list with San Francisco as #1, probably due to Hipsters and Aisnas,

     We also have a great public transportation system & at only 49 mi², it's completely possible to live here without owning a car.

Yeah except BART is awful and only goes North-South (ignoring the fact that the BART police might shoot you while you're down)

     I hate BART. Not only does it suck, but when I ride the bus home from work I pass two BART stations on the way & the people from the station all crowd onto the bus.

[Alcon]

This list kind of weirds me out.  New York City is fat, but D.C. is skinny?

[Lunar]

This list kind of weirds me out.  New York City is fat, but D.C. is skinny?

Demographically adjusted?

[Alcon]

This list kind of weirds me out.  New York City is fat, but D.C. is skinny?

Demographically adjusted?

If so that's pretty useless.

Minorities have poor diets and that gets adjusted away, but poor whites do too and that doesn't?

Miami is still perplexing me too.  Are Cubans way fatter than other Hispanics?  Are their whites really fat?  I mean, retired people tend to be.  Is this metropolitan area?

so many questions!

[Lunar]

This list kind of weirds me out.  New York City is fat, but D.C. is skinny?

Demographically adjusted?

If so that's pretty useless.

Minorities have poor diets and that gets adjusted away, but poor whites do too and that doesn't?

Miami is still perplexing me too.  Are Cubans way fatter than other Hispanics?  Are their whites really fat?  I mean, retired people tend to be.  Is this metropolitan area?

so many questions!

Cubans must be fatter, see 5. Albuquerque, NM and various Colorado cities that would be brought down otherwise

[dead0man]

The link I got went to a bad news story on the subject.  Here is the link to the study done by Men's Fitness.  The top 10 cities have a break down like this one:

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and the rest just have the scorecard.

[Lunar]

F+?

[dead0man]

It's like "a little pregnant" I think.

[Lunar]

I just think there are a very large number of Americans who wish High School would give F+'s should they actually exist

If we're giving schoolgrades for serious issues, it just seems weird.  Might as well give people "Z"'s and "A - + - "'s

[Brittain33]

These lists are insane. The factors they're choosing must be distorting them. Any list that has St. Louis and Milwaukee under "fittest" and New York under "fattest" is cooking the books.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

These lists are insane. The factors they're choosing must be distorting them. Any list that has St. Louis and Milwaukee under "fittest" and New York under "fattest" is cooking the books.

...in lard

[dead0man]

These lists are insane. The factors they're choosing must be distorting them. Any list that has St. Louis and Milwaukee under "fittest" and New York under "fattest" is cooking the books.

You may be right.  Do you have any proof or just anecdotal?  I agree, the lists seem kind of...odd? at first glance and I'm sure the science isn't to MIT levels.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

I am appalled.

Memphis is usually #1 on the perfectly plump list.  Now we're getting beat by 10 other contenders?  This is ridiculous.

[Lief 🗽]

Nice. My two cities are 17th and 18th fittest.

[Brittain33]

These lists are insane. The factors they're choosing must be distorting them. Any list that has St. Louis and Milwaukee under "fittest" and New York under "fattest" is cooking the books.

You may be right.  Do you have any proof or just anecdotal?  I agree, the lists seem kind of...odd? at first glance and I'm sure the science isn't to MIT levels.

Here's a chart on wikipedia that lists it by state.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_United_States

That's not completely helpful for correlations to cities, however, they have identified trends with mass transit use (inverse) and income (also inverse) while some of the other factors that Men's Health have used (air quality?) do not correlate at all with "fatness."

[Beefalow and the Consumer]

Top Fittest Cities

11. Milwaukee, WI

WTF??

[justfollowingtheelections]

It's not a bad study but there are certain factors that they have ignored that make the results a bit misleading at least for certain cities.

Obesity is a problem in NY, but the small per capita number of health-food stores and gyms is because the population is concentrated in such a small area so there's no need for more.  There are two gyms within a walking distance from my apartment.  The lack of health-food stores is a problem outside Manhattan, but not as big as the study makes it sound because of the reasons I mentioned above.

I'm not surprised Charlotte is on the list of not-so-fit cities.  I've seen more obese people there than anywhere else.  BTW I'm really not sure how the existence of parks contributes to a person's fitness.

[Associate Justice PiT]

These lists are insane. The factors they're choosing must be distorting them. Any list that has St. Louis and Milwaukee under "fittest" and New York under "fattest" is cooking the books.

You may be right.  Do you have any proof or just anecdotal?  I agree, the lists seem kind of...odd? at first glance and I'm sure the science isn't to MIT levels.

     The weird thing is that primarily black cities appear to be much, much fitter than primarily hispanic ones according to this list, though I'm not exactly sure why that would be the case.

[bgwah]

These lists vary wildly from year to year. They're complete and utter bullsh*t.