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Old 12-22-2014, 02:31 PM
 
Location: Beautiful Northwest Houston
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According to this fitness blogger Texans take on average 6717 steps per day, where as people in California take on average 7245 steps per day, and New Yorkers take 7958 steps per day. There is an interactive map that shows this in the link provided above.

Question: What does this say about Texas and does any of this information matter ? Do we need to pick up the pace?!
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Old 12-22-2014, 02:52 PM
 
Location: Oil Capital of America
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Question: What does this say about Texas and does any of this information matter ? Do we need to pick up the pace?!
Gotcha covered.

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Old 12-22-2014, 02:55 PM
 
Location: Warrior Country
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Our gas is cheaper.

& walking is over-rated.
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Old 12-22-2014, 02:57 PM
 
Location: Aurora, CO
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Correlation?

Adult Obesity in the United States: The State of Obesity
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Old 12-22-2014, 03:18 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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We just take bigger steps. That is all.
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Old 12-22-2014, 03:38 PM
 
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That's why there are so many fat people here
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Old 12-22-2014, 03:54 PM
 
Location: Upper Kirby, Houston, TX
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If I had to guess, it has to do with walkability of the city and how dense or inter-connected it's urban core is. Although we're making leaps and bounds in those departments, Houston is still undeniable more of a car-centric city than say NYC or San Francisco. I would guess that our numbers aren't too different from LA though as it is also heavily sprawled out.
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Old 12-22-2014, 04:51 PM
 
Location: San Antonio
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There's no good excuse to not walk.
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Old 12-22-2014, 05:09 PM
 
Location: Willowbend/Houston
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Its called our cities are not walkable outside of a precious few areas.
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Old 12-22-2014, 06:22 PM
 
Location: San Antonio
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Its called our cities are not walkable outside of a precious few areas.
You don't need a destination to walk to and you really don't need sidewalks either.
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