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Old 04-28-2016, 11:03 AM
 
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Also of interest is the list Wallethub did of cities most conducive to an active lifestyle

I posted that list in this thread

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Old 04-28-2016, 12:39 PM
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Location: Miami
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Atlanta being one of the only southern metros to land in the top 25 most healthy at #78. I've always said people here in Atlanta are more fit than your average southern city or metro. I don't know why though...probably because of the "Hollywood" factor and people wanting to look as great as they can.
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It's the transplants.
Which makes me think what's the reasoning for Birmingham being at #48. Must be the younger generation, because now that I think about it I rarely see young individuals being overweight despite being compared to other southern metros Must be the environment...
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Old 04-28-2016, 12:57 PM
 
Location: New England
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I'm surprised that Vegas is so healthy. It's not wealthy and it's metro has a lot of sprawl. I would expect it to be fatter and less healthy than San Diego, San Francisco, Denver, etc. Maybe all of it's skinny hookers helps bring its obesity rate down? I'm sure Vegas would not be as high on this list if the health affects of STD's were included. I sincerely doubt that Vegas is the third healthiest city in America.
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Old 04-28-2016, 01:01 PM
 
Location: Surprise, AZ
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I'm surprised that Vegas is so healthy. It's not wealthy and it's metro has a lot of sprawl. I would expect it to be fatter and less healthy than San Diego, San Francisco, Denver, etc. Maybe all of it's skinny hookers helps bring its obesity rate down? I'm sure Vegas would not be as high on this list if the health affects of STD's were included. I sincerely doubt that Vegas is the third healthiest city in America.
Every metro has sprawl...enough with that stupid phrase being thrown around all the time.
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Old 04-28-2016, 01:10 PM
 
Location: New England
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Every metro has sprawl...enough with that stupid phrase being thrown around all the time.
True all American cities do have immense amounts of sprawl. Visit parts of Europe if you want to see examples of large cities that resist sprawl. San Francisco is probably the only american city with low sprawl that I can think of but that is a result of its interesting geography. However I assumed that dense cities like New York, San Francisco, and Boston would be skinnier than Vegas because a large proportion of their respective population walks and takes public transit. Even New York and Boston have lots of car dependent sprawl outside of their city centers so i understand where you are coming from.

Back on topic it still surprised me that Vegas was one of Americas healthiest metro areas. Honolulu doesn't surprise me in the slightest bit however. The city is over 50% asian and for some reason asain people tend to have much lower obesity rates than other ethnic groups.

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Old 04-28-2016, 01:28 PM
 
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True all American cities do have immense amounts of sprawl. Visit Europe if you want to see examples of large cities that resist sprawl. San Francisco is probably the only american city with low sprawl that I can think of but that is a result of its interesting geography. However I assumed that dense cities like New York, San Francisco, and Boston would be skinnier than Vegas because a large proportion of their respective population walks and takes public transit. Even New York and Boston have lots of car dependent sprawl outside of their city centers so i understand where you are coming from.

Back on topic it still surprised me that Vegas was one of Americas healthiest metro areas. Honolulu doesn't surprise me in the slightest bit however. The city is over 50% asian and for some reason asain people tend to have much lower obesity rates than other ethnic groups.
Honolulu's the happiest, healthiest, of all the cities...sigh. It sounds the most like a utopia....too bad it's so damn remote and expensive.
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Old 04-28-2016, 01:30 PM
 
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these articles are bogus , they are comparing really obese cities to really, really obese cities . The best cities on this list have horrible numbers compared to asia and europe. we should compare our cities to europe and places like japan and korea in asia. you rarely see obese people in japan,singapore ,thailand, france, scandinavia etc. Their diets have much less meat, much more vegetables, more olive oils and less fatty oils, they definitely don't have the kfc double down sandwich and our fast food culture. much healthier diets
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Old 04-28-2016, 01:37 PM
 
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these articles are bogus , they are comparing really obese cities to really, really obese cities . The best cities on this list have horrible numbers compared to asia and europe. we should compare our cities to europe and places like japan and korea in asia. you rarely see obese people in japan,singapore ,thailand, france, scandinavia etc. Their diets have much less meat, much more vegetables, more olive oils and less fatty oils, they definitely don't have the kfc double down sandwich and our fast food culture. much healthier diets
I blame part of the problem on the portion sizes of food in America. Usually when I go out to eat in the United States I stuff myself with food or throw away half of the plate. When I studied abroad in Denmark the foods they ate weren't necessarily healthy but the portion sizes were much more reasonable. The hot dogs at seven-eleven in Denmark are about half the size of the disgusting hot dogs that seven-elevens in America sell.

I also find it interesting that the countries with the best foods, for example Italy or France, have some of the lowest obesity rates in Europe. Maybe its the culture of sitting down and taking hours enjoying a multi course meal.

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Old 04-28-2016, 01:43 PM
 
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It's also tied to poverty. The poorest states tend to be the fattest, because sadly access to more nutritious food is more expensive. In poorer areas, whether it's southern Italy, or southern U.S., you'll see a greater prevalence of fried food, because it originally developed as a way to make lower quality/inexpensive food taste better.

In NOLA for example, on almost all the restaurant menus i saw, foods were served in massive portions, and were either fried, slathered in cream sauce, butter, cheese, or some combination of all of them.
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Old 04-28-2016, 02:06 PM
 
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I blame part of the problem on the portion sizes of food in America. Usually when I go out to eat in the United States I stuff myself with food or throw away half of the plate. When I studied abroad in Denmark the foods they ate weren't necessarily healthy but the portion sizes were much more reasonable. The hot dogs at seven-eleven in Denmark are about half the size of the disgusting hot dogs that seven-elevens in America sell.

I also find it interesting that the countries with the best foods, for example Italy or France, have some of the lowest obesity rates in Europe. Maybe its the culture of sitting down and taking hours enjoying a multi course meal.
i agree, I think alot of people from the healthier nations would find something like golden corral or ponderosa or sizzler incomprehensible. even the all you can eat salad bars are unhealthy, macaroni salads and fatty stuff, unlimited bread sticks like olive garden, all you can drink soda, tons of cheeses and fatty salad dressings

One thing you notice is how some of the healthiest countries eat so little meat, japan and alot of asian countries, greece and the mediterranean etc.

I think the first step would be to stop comparing american cities to each other, and learn about other nations healthier diets and lifestyles. there is far less distance between the top cities and lowest cities than there is between healthy nations and our own nation. the so called fittest cities and state are awful, they don't even come close to places like japan, korea, switzerland etc . Japan has a 3% obesity rate!

I will say this data seems awfully bizarre to me. they have the cities with highest percentage of overweight adults

1. anchorage
2.Asheville
3.bridgeport stamford connecticut
4. Miami
5.new haven ct

and the five cities with lowest percentage of overweight adults

fort wayne indiana
mcallen texas
dayton ohio
provo utah
ogden itah

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