Quote: (11-29-2012 07:39 PM)Timoteo Wrote:
Quote: (11-27-2012 06:14 PM)TheCaptainPower Wrote:
@Houston: 1/3rd??? In New York City it is at least 75-85 percent. I take the train from Brooklyn to Manhattan 5x a week, and most people can't even walk up the stairs...
Most overweight city in america?
According to the Board of Health in NYC, half of New Yorkers are overweight. Half of the overweight are considered obese. Yes, the BMI isn't the most accurate measure, but we all know obese when we see it. There's obese, and then morbidly obese beyond that. I'm not sure if NY is THE fattest city, but it's definitely near the top if not #1.
Fattest metropolitan areas in the United States:
• Reading, Penn.: 32.7% of residents are obese
• Kennewick-Pasco-Richland, Wash.: 33.2% of residents are obese
• Topeka, Kans.: 33.3% of residents are obese
• Lakeland-Winter Haven, Fla.: 33.5% of residents are obese
• Charleston, W. Va.: 33.8% of residents are obese
• Beaumont-Port Arthur, Texas: 33.8% of residents are obese
• Rockford, Ill.: 35.5% of residents are obese
• Huntington-Ashland, W. Va., Ky., Ohio: 36.0% of residents are obese
• Binghamton, N.Y.: 37.6% of residents are obese
• McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas: 38.8% of residents are obese
Thinnest metropolitan areas in the United States:
• Boulder, Colo.: 12.1% of residents are obese
• Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, Conn.: 14.5% of residents are obese
• Fort Collins-Loveland, Colo.: 14.6% of residents are obese
• Barnstable Town, Mass.: 15.9% of residents are obese
• Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta, Calif.: 16.4% of residents are obese
• Naples-Marco Island, Fla.: 16.5% of residents are obese
• Trenton-Ewig, N.J.: 16.8% of residents are obese
• Provo-Orem, Utah: 17.1% of residents are obese
• Colorado Springs, Colo.: 17.4% of residents are obese
• San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, Calif.: 17.5% of residents are obese
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Both the fattest and thinnest metro areas seem to be small-to-mid sized cities.
Here's the full list of 190 metro areas.