AMERICA'S FATTEST+FITTEST CITIES

[sukkafu]

MEN'S HEALTH MAG just came out with the top 10 fattest and the top 10 fittest cities in america. based on lifestyles, eating habits, climate, and couch potatoes.

the fattest are-in order

1-houston 2-chicago 3- detroit 4-philadelphia 5-st.louis
6-cleveland 7-atlanta 8-columbus,oh. 9-dallas 10-charlotte

the fittest are -in order-

1-honolulu 2-seattle 3-san fran 4-colo springs 5-san diego 6-portland ore. 7-denver-8-virg. beach 9-tucson
10-sacramento

houston has been the fattest 3 straight years.
it's interesting to note that only one southern city made the fittest , but 4 southern cities made the fattest. so did 5 midwest cities make the fattest. only philly from the east coast made the fattest. the west had 9 of the 10 fittest.
interesting, huh?

[iratherlikeme]

Yup, definitely interesting, I'd say.

I heard a question once that went something like, If the average American is overweight, wouldn't their weight be the average, and everyone else underweight?

[sukkafu]

well, the funny thing is young laydee -we have so much more health knowledge and so much more technology today that people are glued to tv sets, movies, computers, and physical work is so absent from their daily routine. people rely more on pills than on prevention. exercise is what we insist on- to exercise our right to sit around !

[iratherlikeme]

I'm part of the non-exercising group. I believe the only actual exercise I've ever gotten was that year and a half I played basketball for school. That was 8th and half of 9th grade.

[tdallasw]

Sukkafu-
see the reference I made to your barbeque menu in 2000 zero zero party over oops out of time...

The South is really SLOWWWW to change its habits of deep frying everything... including the Krispy Kremes.

[tdallasw]

Remember that one of the most popular sports in the South is NASCAR racin'. The participants are riding and the fans are watchin' while drinking beer and eating fried chicken in the stands.

That ought to give you a clue as to the 'fitness' craze down South, eh?

[iratherlikeme]

I've never been interested in Nascar racing, but I imagine Tdallas is hitting it dead-on with all that grease we consume down here.

[earthangel]

Aba, I dont know what part of Texas you're in, but stay on that diet!!!

Ivory, see what too many Krispy Kremes can do? ;D

[sukkafu]

ivory is fine! she says lots of fun stuff, but i bet that she watches her weight.
if she doesn't, then she'll see it without watching it! ;D

[sukkafu]

i guess after seeing cleveland and columbus on that list of fattest cities, i wouldn't want to be in an ohio ''state''! ;D get it, buckeye?

[Dbaby]

YAY! Go Denver! :-)

[DramaLJDiva]

I think that in a lot of northern cities, so-called "southern" food is eaten often, so that just proves that not only do people who live in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi eat "grease".
I've never been in a city or known someone who hails from a city in which everyone is "overweight", "fat", "fit", or "underweight".

[iratherlikeme]

I don't know if I'd go so far as to say that I'm okay with the fact that so many are overweight because of the health risks involved, but I dig the fact that there are different shapes out there. That makes for different choices in clothing, right?

[Aba21]

I'm in San Antonio and it used to be number 1 in the nation for fatties. now it's 13. But I'm still wit my diet. I ain't gon quit.

[iratherlikeme]

Quitters never win... That's a good attitude to have, Aba. I've never tried a diet, but I doubt I'd have the discipline it took anyway.