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I was pleased that Men's Health ranked San Francisco, my city by the bay, the leanest city in the US. It's a great place to live, eat, and work out. The parks, the bike routes, not to mention the infamous hills all provide excellent fitness opportunities pretty much 365 days a year. Not to be outdone by a magazine, the American College of Sports Medicine recently published its American Fitness Read more
Every year Men's Health magazine likes to flex its research muscle and rank 100 US cities by their heft. Well, there is a bit more criteria involved than just BMI. To create the ranking, Men's Health looked at: percentage of the city's population who are overweight; the percentage of citizens diagnosed with type 2 diabetes; the percentage of residents who haven't left the couch in a month based Read more
Do you live in one of the fittest cities in America, or one of the fattest cities? Or maybe neither. Men's Fitness has once again done the research and found the fittest and fattest cities and the findings are not surprising. Highlights of the fittest cities: Colorado Springs. That fresh mountain air is the best you can find anywhere, and there are more than twice as many health food stores per Read more
Men's Fitness magazine compared 50 cities in the U.S. to determine the fattest and fittest. Cities were judged based on the habits of population such as nutrition and exercise as well as air quality and availability of public parks. The fittest cities are: Baltimore, Maryland Honolulu, Hawaii Virginia Beach, Virginia Tucson, Arizona Milwaukee, Wisconsin Colorado Springs, Colorado San Read more
Celebrity Chef Jamie Oliver has slaughtered a chicken on television, reformed school lunch in England, and is now onto his next mission: shaping up America's "fattest and unhealthiest" city — Huntington, W. VA — for all the world to see on reality TV. Huntington was given the title of fattest city from an Associated Press article that ran last year. The AP culled data from the Centers for Read more
Britain's Naked Chef Jamie Oliver made headlines when he took his campaign stateside for the first season of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, even winning a 2010 Primetime Emmy along the way. Although season one took place in Huntington, WV (onetime fattest city in America!), on season two, which debuted last night, he focuses on the schools of Los Angeles. Even though Jamie hits plenty of red Read more
Last night I was up late firing my glue gun at the finishing details on my daughter's Halloween costume, so I was a little groggy this morning. Most of the time I do get plenty of rest, but according to a recent study, sleeplessness is a major US problem. Americans suffer from chronic lack of sleep, and the problem is most prevalent in the southeastern United States, particularly in West Read more
