G'mornin' Thump!

Good to see ya!

Far be it for me to defend Chicago, land that I hate.

But that Mens Health poll is a joke. It's based mostly on how much access a city has to healthy choices (like health clubs and stuff). NOT on a sampling of peoples weight.

I don't doubt for a minute that pound for pound Milwaukee is no where near the top 5 healthiest cities.

They actually have LA and another southern California city in the top 5 fattest cities don't they? If not they were top 10. COME ON!

...just trying to show ruby she's lucky not to live there anymore, is all!

I totally agree on the poll. Milwaukee, land of cheese, brats, and beer is NOT a healthy town, ey der?

very true ruby on the gym!!

these are all the resolutions people! they'll be gone soon enough. The pull of the bratwurst, beer and cheese-curds is strong!

That is because he has never been to South Carolina!

Ruby,

I have an open mind...

Maybe a roadtrip, or a tour of Carolina is in order

Hey Guys. Did you see this one?

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Cities with the Best Abs, Worst Flab
Like college kids on a coast-to-coast bender, we searched the nation for six-packs. Is your town ab-dominant, or abominable?


Reviewed on 04/26/2005
Posted on 10/22/2004




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Our mission as a magazine is to look out for the health of nations, particularly this one. And we know that there's no greater bellwether for our nation's health than the state of the national abdomen. In abs we trust.

 

Why? It's simple: A trim waist means a lower risk of diabetes, heart disease, various cancers, and even impotence. So with all that at stake, the mission was critical, and also problematic. How to rate the Great American Middle?

 

Our solution: Gather indicators that would reflect the abbiness, or flabbiness, of our cities' populations. Our purpose: To provoke a reconsideration of the vast, and scarily burgeoning, American middle. So we crunched (naturally) all the abdominal stats--body-mass index numbers by county, back-surgery rates from the CDC (because weak abs mean vulnerable backs), usage rates for both gyms and abdominal machines, the numbers of weight lifters per city, diabetes rates (because big bellies are precursors to the disease), and blood-pressure measurements (low exercise leads to higher BP). We even checked the college towns of NBA and WNBA draft picks for the past 5 years, because, of course, it takes great abs to take it to the rack. (Check out Lauren Jackson and Allen Iverson's packs sometime, if you don't believe us.)

 

The result of this analytical exercise: The most definitive ranking of the national midsection ever done. And here's the best part: That which we can measure, we can change. Accordingly, we've included four tips from The Abs Diet, our best-selling belly-off/six- pack-on program, to help the residents of St. Louis and Cleveland work off the lard that sank them from six-pack to back of the pack.

Best Abs
1. San Francisco, CA
2. Oakland, CA
3. Austin, TX
4. Boston, MA
5. Washington, DC
6. Portland, OR
7. Santa Ana, CA
8. Anaheim, CA
9. Seattle, WA
10. Sacramento, CA
11. Honolulu, HI
12. Colorado Springs, CO
13. Atlanta, GA
14. Denver, CO
15. Los Angeles, CA
16. Albuquerque, NM
17. Chicago, IL
18. Dallas, TX
19. Aurora, CO
20. Long Beach, CA
21. San Diego, CA
22. Pittsburgh, PA
23. San Jose, CA
24. Minneapolis, MN
25. Raleigh, NC
26. Charlotte, NC
27. Tucson, AZ
28. New York, NY
29. Omaha, NE
30. Toledo, OH


Worst Flab
1. St. Louis, MO
2. Cleveland, OH
3. Memphis, TN
4. Jacksonville, FL
5. Detroit, MI
6. Virginia Beach, VA
7. El Paso, TX
8. Buffalo, NY
9. Indianapolis, IN
10. Oklahoma City, OK
11. Milwaukee, WI
12. Fresno, CA
13. Arlington, TX
14. Fort Worth, TX
15. Nashville-Davidson, TN
16. Columbus, OH
17. Tampa, FL
18. Cincinnati, OH
19. Kansas City, MO
20. Las Vegas, NV
21. Tulsa, OK
22. Philadelphia, PA
23. Wichita, KS
24. San Antonio, TX
25. Baltimore, MD
26. New Orleans, LA
27. Houston, TX
28. Miami, FL
29. Mesa, AZ
30. Phoenix, AZ

ah touche!