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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
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After looking at the 100 largest metropolitan areas in America, Burlington, VT, came out on top as Self magazine's "fittest, healthiest, and happiest" city to live in for women. The magazine studied almost 8,000 different pieces of data in 50 categories and consulted a panel of experts to come up with its rankings. Information factored into the creation of this list includes rates of diseases, Read more
