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- castevens, on 11/25/2007, -0/+116The actual list -- it doesn't post them as a list:
1. Memphis, Tenn.: 34%
2. Birmingham, Ala.: 31.3%
3. San Antonio, Texas: 31.1%
4. Riverside/San Bernardino, Calif.: 30.8%
5. Detroit: 30.4%
6. Jacksonville, Fla.: 29.8%
7. Nashville, Tenn.: 28.8%
8. Oklahoma City: 27.5%
9. Kansas City, Mo.: 26.9%
10. San Diego, Calif.: 26.7%
11. Cincinnati, Ohio: 26.3%
12. Indianapolis: 26%
13. (Tie) Baltimore: 25.8%
13. (Tie) New Orleans: 25.8%
13. (Tie) Virginia Beach, Va.: 25.8%
16. Atlanta: 25.6%
17. (Tie) Milwaukee: 25.4%
17. (Tie) Richmond, Va.: 25.4%
18. (Tie) Austin, Texas: 24.9%
18. (Tie) Las Vegas, NV: 24.9% - spudnic, on 11/25/2007, -1/+38"Once considered an affliction of the lazy and indulgent, obesity now affects about one-third of Americans."
It's still considered that, there's just more of them. - devilfunk, on 11/25/2007, -4/+29If the Internet was a city, it would own that list!!!
- BigManOnCampus, on 11/25/2007, -5/+28Only one California city on that list, and surprisingly it's San Diego.
Riverside/San Bernadino aren't really cities anymore. I hear they're both consolidating into one giant meth-lab. - tuxidomasx, on 11/25/2007, -3/+23honestly tho, the obesity rating thing itself is pretty jacked up
i'm like 5'10, solid muscle. weigh like 190. i can run a mile in 8 minutes flat. but according to these weird BMI charts, i'm overweight. and about 3 cheeseburgers away from obese. - devinmurphy, on 11/25/2007, -1/+20Wow how about let's talk about how much that site SUCKED to visit. You would think FORBES, the "money magazine" would be able to pay for a decent site. *****. I almost had a seizure watching each page load every time for a new picture. I guess flash is too complicated for them.
- squirrelza, on 11/25/2007, -13/+30The whole of America is fat. Digg me down :)
- icegoddess13, on 11/25/2007, -0/+14I can vouche for Cincinnati on that list. I work in retail and you wouldn't believe the people that come in. It pisses me off when the overweight people end up taking the riding carts that someone else actually needs...
- dblatti, on 11/25/2007, -3/+16What happened to Chicago? We can't let those bastards in Milwaukee beat us at anything! Bring me my bacon feed bag.
- pgoetz, on 11/25/2007, -2/+15Come on; Houston, the 2005 winner of most obese city as well as "most fast food restaurants" and "most fast food consumed" isn't even on this list? While Austin, home of the fittest yuppies in Texas is? Buried as wildly inaccurate.
- joeshlub, on 11/25/2007, -2/+13Interesting how new england isn't represented at all on there. Coincidence, or is it one of the less fat parts of the country?
- ReubADoob, on 11/25/2007, -0/+9Memphis is also the home of BBQ-Fest every year in May. Interesting.
- Phocion55, on 11/25/2007, -0/+9Yea thankfully the 50 Twinkies I eat each day don't have meat in them.
- inactive, on 11/25/2007, -1/+10All states:
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/health/2269064/det ...
Seems New England is in fact less fat than the rest of America. - 1tb0y, on 11/25/2007, -0/+9I'm disappointed Austin's on that list. Oh well. Time for fried chicken and okra!
- spudnic, on 11/25/2007, -0/+9I agree with you in principle, but over here in the UK most towns and cities were designed before cars were even invented, and people still drive everywhere, and we still have an obesity problem, but there is traffic congestion problem too...
People just need to eat less, more healthily, and exercise more. People like to over-complicate it, but it really is that simple. - fugimugim, on 11/25/2007, -1/+10BMI is not really that effective. Body fat percentage is a much more reliable indicator of how fat people really are.
- alpine75, on 11/25/2007, -0/+9You're not going to beat Milwaukee. A place that has a passionate love for frozen custard :-)
- acidbass, on 11/25/2007, -0/+8you dont wanna know. Its like this little piggie went to market but in real life.
- theOster, on 11/25/2007, -1/+8living in new york, i would say that the NE is much more prone to smaller, tight-knit city centers and much less the sprawling suburbs so walking/biking is a reasonable alternative to driving. also, the climate is more conducive to being "out and about" rather than the sweltering heat of the southern states (i also lived in FL for 10 years). i am much more active here in NY than i ever was in FL.
and thats the way it was... - acidbass, on 11/25/2007, -0/+7NYC can get kinda fat, especially in the subways, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCoLTbbEmRU
- mess7777, on 11/25/2007, -1/+8San Diego is not surprising. I was there just before the recent fires. No one knows what walking is. I was at a convention and the meetings were a 5 minute walk away from the hotel. They had a shuttle bus to take people to and from!!!!!! We asked people how far to various places by foot, the answers they gave were wildly inaccurate because no one ever walks anywhere!
- Sketchcast, on 11/25/2007, -0/+6"Once considered an affliction of the lazy and indulgent". What's changed? Track these people's lifestyles and it becomes abundantly clear that they are eating ***** food, eating too much food, and not exercising enough.
Fat people are fat because they aren't living properly. The sooner you idiots stop pretending that it's normal to be obese, the sooner you'll cure the problem. - jefflundberg, on 11/25/2007, -1/+7Because Ron Paul is a doctor, and doctors often remind us to eat healthy, and.... awww forget it. I support Ron Paul but your comment has nothing to do with this story.
- reuscel, on 11/25/2007, -0/+6U... *puff, puff*... S... *cough, wheeze*... A...*ow, my heart*
- perogi21, on 11/25/2007, -3/+8The sick part is most of the women north of Boston are pigs. I would hate to see what is going on in Memphis!
- akatherder, on 11/25/2007, -0/+5Detroit:
#5 fattest city
#2 most dangerous city
#1 in our hearts (even if they are swollen from pumping extra hard to compensate for clogged arteries or if you just got shot there). - Zeonix, on 11/25/2007, -1/+6Huzzah for none of them being in NY.
- sockpuppets, on 11/25/2007, -0/+5...and the cows came home.
- jmkiii, on 11/25/2007, -1/+6Yeah, makes me doubt this.
- OisinT, on 11/25/2007, -0/+5I noticed Portland and Seattle missing from those lists as well.... must be the NE-like city setups they have there plus a major bike culture.
Just funny that most of the places on that list are fairly warm - you could easily walk around the place.
Most freezing cold places where you are forced to drive aren't on the list. - felchdonkey, on 11/25/2007, -1/+5Interesting that the majority of those cities are in red states. Of all 20 most obese cities, only 5 voted for Kerry in 2004. 14 of the cities on the list went Republican - only Austin was split evenly.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/images/blogs/barone_e ...
I'm not saying being Republican makes you fat, or being fat makes you vote Republican - correlation does not imply causation - it's just interesting. - totaljerkface, on 11/25/2007, -1/+5shutup fatass!
- Derrelicte, on 11/25/2007, -3/+7Eight minutes isn't that great for a mile time...
- TheCasablancan, on 11/25/2007, -0/+4I hated those people when I worked Retail. There was this one woman whom I saw tell her kids to go get one of the scooters and bring it to the car so she didn't have to walk in. What a bitch.
- merper, on 11/25/2007, -2/+6Obesity isn't a lone symptom. There's the food culture it represents, yes, but there's also the transportation culture. One of the chief commonalities in a lot of these cities is that the residents spend a lot of time going places in cars. Living in Atlanta, in many many parts of downtown I've been one of maybe two or three people on the sidewalks. Move away from that part of the city, and you can ride a bike for miles and not see anyone else who isn't behind a steering wheel. It's not really a safety issue, what it is, is a matter of poor city planning. Fix sprawl and you not only encourage people to walk, but you heighten the potential for public transport and lower crime because so many witnesses will be around.
Maybe too late for some of these cities, but others can still learn. - perogi21, on 11/25/2007, -1/+5"And until you have tried it, you just don't understand what you're missing."
A giant ass? - mGARANDEUR1, on 11/25/2007, -0/+3um... no there isn't
Tennessee?Texas? How much crime happens in Tennessee? Where is New York or Chicago on the list? - bdbr, on 11/25/2007, -0/+3Its more than just warm in some of those places - its damn hot in the summer. That's why they don't walk a lot.
When I lived in Texas, my mother-in-law visited from Korea and she asked if it was illegal to walk! (because no one ever did, and there weren't sidewalks in a lot of places) - jefflundberg, on 11/25/2007, -0/+3One could also make the argument that vegetarians (in general) are also people who watch what they eat, and would not become obese if they started to eat filet mignon every once and a while.
- thirdoffive, on 11/25/2007, -0/+3Actually they have beef fat in them.
- theblooms, on 11/25/2007, -1/+4"the South is more fat than the North"
That's because the food in the South is WAY better! Fried Chicken, Barbeque, Fried Okra, Catfish, Pork Chops, Ribs, Grits, Sausage, Collard Greens, Turnip Greens, Fried Turkey, Baked Macaroni and Cheese, Baked Beans, BBQ Chicken, Pork Rinds, Chicken Livers and Gizzards...
You just can't get that cooked as well anywhere else in the country. And until you have tried it, you just don't understand what you're missing. - Pake, on 11/25/2007, -0/+3That's why it's based off stats and not experience.
- Pake, on 11/25/2007, -0/+3Let me rephrase what I said a bit. Change voter to state income as a whole and compare: http://www.census.gov/statab/ranks/rank29.html and http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec ...
Your wealthier states tend to lean towards Democrat and the poorer states lean towards Republican. - ellecon, on 11/25/2007, -0/+366% of people from Memphis aren't obese, despite the tasty food. Amazing.
- krakkinem, on 11/25/2007, -0/+3It's not that you guys are that fat, it's because San Antonio has grown so fat that our cellulite is encroaching upon you. Think of us as Texas' fat ass.
- 0crabby0, on 11/25/2007, -0/+3So we should eat vegetarians because they are healthy?
- nnagflar, on 11/25/2007, -0/+3Yeah! Ron Paul is fat!
- inactive, on 11/25/2007, -0/+2Newsflash: all good foods are fattening.
- inactive, on 11/25/2007, -0/+2Actually I believe if you look at a ranking of states with the highest number of cities considered to be "obese", I want to say Texas ranks #1...
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