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Old 02-14-2012, 10:31 AM
 
Location: Downtown Area
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Creating a list of America's fattest cities is merely making a list of the "best of the worst." While it is easy to place the blame for obesity on the individual, in all reality, food corporations are to blame for our epidemic. They produce high caloric, intensely flavored foods that create cravings - or addictions have you - only to turn around and say they are to be eaten "in moderation."

Processed food is addictive much like Heroin and Cocaine only food kills you slowly. 60 minutes did an expose on this topic recently. Check it out:
Tweaking tastes and creating cravings - YouTube
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Old 02-14-2012, 06:41 PM
 
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Great place to start a food business.
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Old 02-22-2012, 05:16 PM
 
Location: The land of sugar... previously Houston and Austin
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Surprise, surprise - CultureMap exposed today that the Men's Fitness list doesn't actually rank cities by the percentage of obese people in each city! Who knew?

Whatever, Men's Fitness: Houston is America's fattest city again, but there is real reason to love this - CultureMap Houston
"Dallas came in at the very bottom of the [Men's Fitness] fat list in the No. 25 spot, but it has 33.8 percent obese residents, the third-most in the country.
So congrats, Houston, for being the fattest city despite not actually having the fattest residents. Living a fat lifestyle (no walking, yummy food) without actually getting fat is pretty much the American dream."


Hilarious.
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Old 02-22-2012, 05:29 PM
 
Location: The land of sugar... previously Houston and Austin
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And more reason to be skeptical of Men's Fitness/Men's Cosmo and similar lists... inconsistency!

Skinniest Cities in America - Houston ranks 3rd

America's Most Obese Cities - Austin moves ahead of Houston - Forbes.com

Corpus Christi #1, Dallas, San Antonio and others fatter than Houston - Men's Health

The 8 Most Artery-Clogging Cities in America (Houston not on the list) - Healthy Living
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Old 03-08-2012, 06:10 PM
 
Location: The land of sugar... previously Houston and Austin
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Most obese cities - Gallup

New list out. Looks like this list uses BMIs, calculated from self-reported heights/weights. So assuming they surveyed a decent sample size and it's representative of the relevant population (and knowing Gallup it probably is), it would be much more credible than something that claims to know the fattest cities by number of restaurants and such, without having measured one person (Men's Fitness/Men's Cosmo.) And what do you know... very different from the Men's Fitness list.

1. McAllen, TX
2. Binghamton, NY
3. Huntington, WV
4. Rockford, IL
5. Beaumont/Port Arthur, TX
6. Charleston, WV
7. Lakeland, FL
8. Topeka, KS
9. Kennewick/Richland, WA
10. Reading, PA
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