2017’s Fattest Cities in America

[Machiavelli]

Richie Bernardo
WalletHub
March 22, 2017

Americans are the fattest people in the world. By one measure, more than 70 percent of the U.S. population aged 15 and older is overweight or obese. But such a finding should come as no surprise, considering the proliferation of fast-food establishments and increasingly cheaper grocery items that have negatively altered our diets. Unfortunately, the extra pounds have inflated the costs of obesity-related medical treatment to nearly $316 billion a year and annual productivity losses due to work absenteeism to more than $8.6 billion.

But certain places are more responsible than others for tipping the scale in favor of bad health. To identify them, WalletHub’s analysts compared 100 of the most populated U.S. metro areas across 17 key indicators of weight-related problems. Our data set ranges from share of physically inactive adults to projected obesity rates by 2030 to healthy-food access. Read on for our findings, expert advice on tackling America’s growing obesity problem and a full description of our methodology.

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[Frank Cannon]

So basically they named every major city in the US. Thank you world government fetishists for your opinion. Let me file it with all of your other opinions.....

[Suppressed]

So basically they named every major city in the US. Thank you world government fetishists for your opinion. Let me file it with all of your other opinions.....

"opinions"?  Is this not based on factual information?

[Frank Cannon]

"opinions"?  Is this not based on factual information?

Dig around on OECD website. They are basing this shit off of BMI which a thoroughly discredited way to determine obesity because of a number of factors. Arnold Schwarzenegger in his prime would be considered obese using that shady scale.

In other words, this cite is peddling their normal New World Order bullshit saying that us, the haves, have too much. F that.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/265215.php

[truth_seeker]

First off I would prefer something about methodology. But the result is similar to other reports.

It clearly shows a demarcation with the West having less obesity. Denver and Colorado Springs.

High altitude with four seasons, no particular political bias.

I'll go out on a limb and claim that out West, we are more health and fitness oriented.

That probably includes more outdoors exercise, and more care over diet. 

[Idaho_Cowboy]

First off I would prefer something about methodology. But the result is similar to other reports.

It clearly shows a demarcation with the West having less obesity. Denver and Colorado Springs.

High altitude with four seasons, no particular political bias.

I'll go out on a limb and claim that out West, we are more health and fitness oriented.

That probably includes more outdoors exercise, and more care over diet.

Boise got beat by Denver again. I think it's the mountain lions chasing all the joggers in Denver and making them faster runners. Plus it thins the heard of the slowest.

[Frank Cannon]

I'll go out on a limb and claim that out West, we are more health and fitness oriented.

That probably includes more outdoors exercise, and more care over diet.

Or you spend all your money on paying for $2000 efficiencies with a shitter in the kitchen and can't afford food.

[ABX]

So basically, areas with more reasonable climates, 50-90 degrees and low humidity, year round are in better shape than places with more extreme swings in climate (fridged winters, blistering summers). It also applies to places that have year round access to better, fresher produce, versus places where either due to weather extremes or culture, have higher meat/fat diets.

That doesn't take a rocket scientist to guess which places would be healthier.

And congratulations to Shreveport Louisiana for being the overall worst. A combination of blistery hot and humid summers, where people don't want to go out, and right in the heart of Cajun and Southern cooking, you make fat people proud.

[skeeter]

A couple of thoughts... I'd bet that poor people are over represented in the portion of the population deemed fat, apparently many of them can't be bothered to buy and prepare their own health foods, in spite of the fact they're able to eat on the taxpayer nickle; and

Second, I've been running and doing moderate weigh training regularly for 35 years and at 175 lbs and 5' 9" am considered overweight by the government's measure. Taking their word on it would be pretty demoralizing, so I don't take what they think very seriously.

[truth_seeker]

So basically, areas with more reasonable climates, 50-90 degrees and low humidity, year round are in better shape than places with more extreme swings in climate (fridged winters, blistering summers). It also applies to places that have year round access to better, fresher produce, versus places where either due to weather extremes or culture, have higher meat/fat diets.

That doesn't take a rocket scientist to guess which places would be healthier.

And congratulations to Shreveport Louisiana for being the overall worst. A combination of blistery hot and humid summers, where people don't want to go out, and right in the heart of Cajun and Southern cooking, you make fat people proud.

So how did Lance Armstrong train in Texas weather?

[thackney]

So how did Lance Armstrong train in Texas weather?

While I understand your message, you probably should have used a different example.

[geronl]

"opinions"?  Is this not based on factual information?

Usually stories with headlines like this cite a report that simply counted the number of fast food places in a city or something stupid like that.

[Applewood]

"increasingly cheaper grocery items"

I should have stopped reading right there. Unless you grow or raise your own, food is not cheap.  Particularly true of fruit and vegetables.  About the only place I can find a bit more reasonably priced produce is Walmart or Aldis or some discount store.  And contrary to what some people think, packaged meals are not cheap either. Oh, you might find a sale on Lean Cuisine -- 5 for $10, maybe. But if you do a little math, youll find that for the small amount of food you get, they are really expensive. 

[Idaho_Cowboy]

"increasingly cheaper grocery items"

I should have stopped reading right there. Unless you grow or raise your own, food is not cheap.  Particularly true of fruit and vegetables.  About the only place I can find a bit more reasonably priced produce is Walmart or Aldis or some discount store.  And contrary to what some people think, packaged meals are not cheap either. Oh, you might find a sale on Lean Cuisine -- 5 for $10, maybe. But if you do a little math, youll find that for the small amount of food you get, they are really expensive.

Fruits and veggies can be affordable if you have the time to prep them. Dried beans are a heck of a bargain. So are potatoes, cabbage, carrots and others depending on the season. Our great great grandparents knew how to get by without a lot, but they also made everything from scratch. In my experience meat is the expensive part of the shopping list. Best way to get around that is to get your meat in bulk like half a beef critter at a time, which you ain't doing with food stamps.

[truth_seeker]

Mediterranean Diet

Pasta, bread,  fruits and vegetables, fish, meat in small portions etc.

[Frank Cannon]

So how did Lance Armstrong train in Texas weather?

A heavy cocktail of drugs.

[Frank Cannon]

Mediterranean Diet

Pasta, bread,  fruits and vegetables, fish, meat in small portions etc.

You can waste all day making that to eat when you are reliant on the govt' for your paycheck....

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/business/international/greece-debt-crisis-euro.html