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I read an article today where Huntington, WV was named the "heaviest" city in America, with more obesity than any other city in the survey. Is this true, can anyone tell me?
Yes. It is true. Roughly 50% of adult residents of Greater Huntington are obese (no, not merely "overweight", but full-fledged obese). The area ought to be hanging its head in shame over this, as well as its similarly dubious distinction of having the highest percentage nationwide of senior citizens who have lost all of their natural teeth. I just read a very lengthy article discussing these two very same issues. I can't fathom every other person being so corpulent!
Hows 'bout youse Pennsi pukes going back to your home blog...your subliminal comments border on 'Racist...
Youse Pitt sh*tb*rds should hang your head in shame for invading our privacy...spend your time getting some bandages for the A** kicking coming to you in about 2 weeks..some of us remember last years football game...
The author of this article used a lot of made up "facts" and described areas not even in the Huntington MSA in an attempt to make the image of the area a little more downtrodden. He also conveniently used the 2006 obesity data which was more than 10% higher than the data from 2005 and 2007. The 2006 data suggested a 45.3% obesity rate while 2007 suggested a 32.4% rate. Why not use the 2007 data since it's more recent? Because it wouldn't make it sound as bad. Local sources also looked in the phone book to check out his 200 pizza joint line, they only found 38. Sounds like someone is just trying to cook up a juicy article about an area that he assumed wouldn't fight back. Are there things Huntington can work on in this area? There sure are and they are doing that. But this article has a better place in the National Enquirer than it does the local paper. If it were as bad as the author claimed, would we have had over 1,000 participants in the recent marathon and half marathon? I doubt it. Funny how the author could put in the result of the mayoral race but he left out the marathon statistic. Also funny how he used the CDC data to compare cities, even though the CDC says that you can't really do this due to the nature of their data. Here are some local views on this article including reviews of it by people quoted in the original. Read these articles and then make your own decision.
Tim
Yes. It is true. Roughly 50% of adult residents of Greater Huntington are obese (no, not merely "overweight", but full-fledged obese). The area ought to be hanging its head in shame over this, as well as its similarly dubious distinction of having the highest percentage nationwide of senior citizens who have lost all of their natural teeth. I just read a very lengthy article discussing these two very same issues. I can't fathom every other person being so corpulent!
Don't feel bad, Scrandelphia held the title last year. Maybe ScranTON may win in 2009, hold on, I don't think there is anyone left in Scranton anymore.
Hey, Is that your Mayor you have your arm around on your Profile
The Huntington area under fire is the Huntington Metro area - also includes part of Ohio and Kentucky. Of course, it wasn't as much fun for the author to point this out.
Again, David, I have no correlation to Pennsylvania as I replied to you. YOU are quite offensive, presumptuous, and an uneducated loudmouth. City-data would be a far better place without people like you who just LOOK for people to be rude to without any merit or reason.
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