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Houston, Texas has been named the fattest city in the USA for the second year in a row by Men's Fitness magazine. Other top-blubber towns in the annual analysis: Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia and Dallas. In contrast, the fittest cities in the country are Colorado Springs, Denver, San Diego (number one last year), Seattle and San Francisco. The rankings appear in the February issue, on stands Monday.





Houston - It gets clobbered by high TV viewership and low exercise and sports participation. "There's not much that individuals can do about the poor air quality and even less about problematic geography, but they can turn off the tube and get out to their parks, which offer a variety of free programs for kids and adults," the editors write.

Chicago - The Windy City has the worst climate of the 50 cities surveyed. Summers are hot and humid; winter brings nearly 90 days of below-freezing temperatures. Air quality is poor, and the commute times are among the worst, the editors say. It "is the second worst in the category of parks and open space, with 394 people per acre, compared to San Diego's ratio of 34 people per acre," the editors write.

Detroit - Poor grades in climate and geography might be excusable, but considering how lousy the air is here "why do so many smoke?" the magazine asks. Add substandard nutrition, a lack of fitness centers, poor access to health care and a tough commute, and the Motor City sputters and stalls.

Philadelphia - It's climbing up the fitness ladder. Two years ago, Mayor John Street took the city's fattest city ranking as a call to action. He appointed a health-and-fitness czar and backed a variety of innovative fitness ideas. Philadelphians "could easily clamber a few more rungs up the fitness ladder they'd switch off the cable and stub out their cigarettes," the magazine says.

Dallas - It has four times more restaurants per person than New York. It also has more than its fair share of junk food, including 105 doughnut shops.



The Fattest


Houston
Chicago
Detroit
Philadelphia
Dallas
Columbus, Ohio
San Antonio
Fort Worth
St Louis
Indianapolis
Tulsa
Atlanta
Cleveland
El Paso
Miami
New York
Kansas City, Missouri
Phoenix
Baltimore
New Orleans
Charlotte, North Carolina
Milwaukee
Las Vegas
Mesa, Arizona
Wichita

houston is also the most polluted in the country and the fattest. a bad place for lungs

*edit*

Seattle, Washington--the home of grunge, the sound of people affected by crack cocaine and adverse weather conditions.

yeah my state makes the list twice

You know what that means for Houston

Since USA is fatter than any other country in the Europe, and possibly in the world, although not sure about that, Houston, Texas is one of THE fattest cities...in the world.


Fat Central!

Whoever works in that Fitness Men's magazine has NEVER been to Los Angeles! Obviously they don't have a clue about fattest cities! LA should be in the top.

I am glad i am not a statistic

we are all statistics in our own special ways

And people always wonder why I complain about the weather here...I can attest that what that says about the weather here is true...IT SUCKS!!! Hell, all of what it says about Chicago is true...

This thread is making me hungry...

Actually, I heard this on British TV this evning, thats what inspired me to go and find out about this and make a thread.

Turns out, its true!

aw cmon detroit isnt that bad! i mean jeez i see people all over the place just struggling for money to get some sort of food in their mouths but i doubt we are THAT bad! also i love the weather here in michigan...its probably the only thing keeping me here!



as for all the other cities...maybe they should consider anorexia...idiots...

How come LA is not on the list? We have food from nearly all the cultures in the world! Yet, LA doesn't qualify to be in the list? Someone needs to be fired from that magazine.

Ugh, fatness is absolutely and utterly nasty

I saw some stuff in my anatomy book about fat...ok, in humans the fat is yellow....its kind of this smilie color yellow --->

And its not only on the surface of the flesh its also underneat

Ever wandered why fat people walk funny?

Well...its because the bones in their body cannot sustain their weight. The bones at the joints actually start to crush one into another, thats why they walk funny.

Fatness =

Ewww...that's so gross...

The Fittest Cities

1.Honolulu, HI
2.Seattle, WA
3.San Francisco, CA
4.Colorado Springs, CO
5.San Diego, CA
6.Portland, OR
7.Denver, CO
8.Virgina Beach, VA
9.Tucson, AZ
10.Sacramento, CA
11.Minneapolis, MN
12.Boston, MA
13.Austin, TX
14.Omaha, NE
15.Oakland, CA
16.Wichita, KS
17.Alburquerque, NM
18.Jacksonville, FL
19.San Jose, CA
20.Long Beach, CA
21.Memphis, TN
22.Los Angeles, CA
23.Nashville, TN
24.Fresno, CA
25.Tulsa, OK

All of USA is fat!

Houston just happenes to be at the top. LA is fat, so is New York, but LA is filled with Hollywood wannabe stars, therefore lipo-suction = a lot, which balances out everything.

none of that in Houston.

My state made the list 5 times!

have you ever watched somebody get liposuction surgery

Consider yourself lucky if you haven't. Nastiest operation in existence.

Indeed.

Im sorry, but i could never let myself to be so fat, no way in hell.

I eat fast food once every 2 months, its not just the fatness issue, but also the health issue...clogged arteries with yellow fat and nasty fluids...no thanks

Nice... I live only a couple hours away from number six

And some tiny little place in eastern Oregon is the most wireless internet-enabled town in America

I have indeed.

raming a large metal stick up someone....ugh, why do people resort to that...just stop eating!

So has your city cry

Lil is a anti-fat fanatic! schmoll
She's totally prejudiced against the pleasantly plump!

First her outrageous remarks toward that Orka that died in the couch and now this?!?

How unsympathetic!

I like fat people!

One good thing about fat people...well...fat girls at least...

They'll do anything in bed to make up for their gortesque physique, and they're good for back up poon.

Also, fat people are usually funny, if for no other reason then just becuase they're funny to look at. Plus, most fat people are friendlier then skinny people because of the fact taht superficial people won't have anything to do with them, so they have to rely on personality to win people over rather then looks.

One last good thing about being fat, if me and some skinny guy were to get stranded on an island without food, I'd last alot longer then the skinny fella. Thus my chances to be rescued would increase heavily.

Well, that's a little extreme, "stop eating so much" is better. That's what I did, and im nearly 30 pounds lighter for it. Go me!

More likely breast implants than lipo-suction. Most likely silicone weight than fat weight. But I'm not going to generalize too much. So, if I'm wrong...oh, well.

I know, I never eat fast food if I can help it, one time I had McDonald's for dinner on my way home from work (no one was at home and I knew there wasn't really anything to eat, and I was really hungry) and I was almost sick from it.

10 leading causes of death in the US

1. Diseases of heart 700,142 245.8 <---Hmmm I wonder why
2. Malignant neoplasms (cancer) 553,768 194.4
3. Cerebrovascular diseases 163,538 57.4
4. Chronic lower respiratory diseases 123,013 43.2
5. Accidents (unintentional injuries) 101,537 35.7
6. Diabetes mellitus 71,372 25.1<---another reason too
7. Influenza and pneumonia 62,034 21.8
8. Alzheimer's disease 53,852 18.9
9. Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis 39,480 13.9
10. Septicemia 32,238 11.3

We love you just the way you are BF!

Dont let that fat Nazi lil and her outrageous fat hate get to you!

Tex

I dont have anything against pleasently plump people but obease people are not right cry

Im not skinny myself, but i aint fat but Im not one of those people who can eat anything and stay thin, I dont have fizzy drinks, i dont drink, i dont smoke, i dont eat take out...and im still having to keep a track of what i eat in order to maintain a good weight!

Its hard, and i know it must be hard for fat people to get the weight down, but there is nothing worse than fat person walking into McDonnalds... thats no right. And its not healty and these people can die from heart attack way before their time.

(maybe the heart attack IS their time?)

I see more fatties in Ihop than in McDonalds, to be honest.

I see more fatties at Buffets than in IHOP.

liop-suction is...waste of time. cos those people have just lost tons and tons of weight, yet their eating pattern hasnt changed, they'll just get it all back on

Actually, on channel 5 tonight, i watched cosmetic surgery live (some nasty show ), brest implants are in the second place, just receantly overtaken by lipo-suction.

I'm the same way...so I understand perfectly where you're coming from

Obese people suck, they're the reason I don't go to walmart, because they are always there and they take up full lanes.

You know what's even sadder, when these fat people bring their children to Mcdonalds and make them eat it. My friend was telling me how once at a Mcdonalds there was some fat lady eating with her young son, and the son didn't want to eat his last hamburger, and the mom yelled at him and made him eat it.

That's just wrong.

Save it for the judge....when you're arrested for committing a fat hate crime!! schmoll

Ugh! I'm sickened!

If I were fat I'd b!tch slap you with my sweaty b!tch t!ts!

Here in my neck of the woods silicone Breast implants are in first place.........of course I'm complaining about them.

"If I were fat I'd b!tch slap you with my sweaty b!tch t!ts!"


HAHAHA

Exactly what im talking about. Its very wrong, and unfair to the kinds

What do you mean if darling?
No wonder we haven't gotten a new picture of you in forever! winkiss

Yep.

But, there are a few occasions when being thin is more hazardous to your health then being fat. Case in point, Jared from Subway, that guys in constant jeopardy of being stabbed in the ass with my foot. God damn I hate him. I'd rather be fat then be like that *******.

I was about the comment about the no picture thing! laugh1

go san francisco! dance

Psh, I can vouche for Tex, he is in better shape then anyone I've seen, of course, with teh workout we have every night, he damn well better be... He makes all of you chicks look like Mcdonald eating Walmart shoppers.

Stabbed in the ass with your foot.

OMFG Backfire, you never cease to crack me up.

Same with you, Tex

Tex can only afford to shop at Wal-Mart

psh that's nothing, I saw him the other night at Ross: Dress for Less in the "husky" section *giggles*

I used to be fat in elementary school, and the little kids were really mean to me and they used to throw french fries and apple cores at me at lunch.

I really had no friends.

It was really bad.

The summer before entering middle school I worked hard all summer to loose weight. I figured it would be absolute hell if I didn't.
I went through puberty that same summer and grew a bunch...my body really changed and I've been pretty fit ever since.

But those I sill have those scars from what happened when I was little.

So it really upsets me when people make fun or, or look down upon fat people. cry





























*And the Oscar goes to* diva



Suckers!

Husky is just a business term for nearing obesity! winkiss
So is festively plump droolio

I could see you as the kid who got beat up for his lunch money

He ''looks down upon fat people'' and calls me a anti-fat fanatic laugh1

Wal*Mart?!? Ross?!?!

You fat whores!

Ugh!

Whatever!

You two wear bed sheets!

winkiss

Post a pic of you Tex, we have posted plenty of our pics, proving we aint fat....lets see your move....byatch fab

Awww darling do you still get beat up for lunch money? cry
That's propably the only thing that keeps you from obesity! winkiss

i just want to say that if its anything that our government has done right during bush's reign of terror is passing a bill dismissing lawsuits of individuals that claim"the restaurant made them fat"...pfft what a pathetic excuse...damn gold diggers!

laugh1 The resturants made them fat! laugh1

That is so sad. Blaming everyone else for their own fault...

That's like somebody stealing a car stereo and saying "the stereo made me do it!!!"

laugh1 haha!

I can't remenber the names but some of those folks did win the lawsuits. Heck, for a 10 million dollar compensation I'll sue the good ol' Colonel for making me eat those delicious crispy strips!

Thats just rediculous. sleepy People are so qucik to blame others for whats cleary their own fault

Yeah, but those folks sure became rich. Can't blame them for their scheme. It work, anyways......I'm out!

Sac is 10th fittest YES


I remember reading an article in Time that said Sacramento is the most diverse city in America and its the most diverse area in the world.shock


Hear it is for anybody interested

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,340694,00.html

minne is elevnth but i live about 150 miles from there.but minnesota is pretty fit

exactly they don't need resturants to pack um on there everything made there includes lard as the top ingredient

Haha New York Rules

ok, maybe Houston is the fatest, maybe not...but i can tell you why Austin is one of the leanest...its because they have 50,000+ college kids living right in the center of the city!!

I live 20 minutes from Houston and about 10% of the people in my community are fat. I guess central area is much... fatter.

Hey that mat be true in a way but there are also fat people in Europe to But theres just more in the USA. If Mc Fickin Donalds wasnt made then the fat in the US would probably drop a few percent. And besides McDonalds is nasty.

There are fat people everywhere

America is however still the fattest

Oh well

i live in houston, and in my high school, only abou 10-15% are obese, there's not that many that are completely skinny, just built, with meat on their bones. also i did use to be fat, i gained like 40 lbs he summer b4 7th grade, 20 of those lbs in my breasts, but i lost weight recently so i'm @ my healthy weight of 110, which is fine for me b/c i'm 5'1"

speaking about the general houston public tho, from what i see in places, generally it is the older population that is overweight, i haven't seen many really fat teens, like i said b4 they're all just with shape, but many adults are overweight

teenage sleep deprivation, however is another story

OMG, get a grip, will ya. Too many USA haters? that has absoutely nothing to do with anything, USA is the fattest nation in the world, deal with it.

She's right though- its getting to sound quite pathetic- Everyone loves a scapegoat, and the whole world is TOO happy to belittle fat America. It's true but its also becoming a crutch.
And on an individual level, it's just as worm-slithery-low. Get over your neighbor's fatness, people. Your problem may not be your weight, it may not be physical at all, but you've got one, oh yes you do! Jest like me, you're lazy and don't want to concentrate on your own journey, but that doesn't excuse blowing it off in order to gossip-snippety-snip spite-ful snipery about the fatsos! Ah, hee hee hee hee hee hee. I love how yucky we all are! There is no hope! Let us hold a worm race. Whoever can squim the lowest and produce the most slime wins!
Barista! Another triple red-eye, please!

What the hell are you all talking about?

Scapegoat for what? The rest of the world isnt as near as fat as USA, what scapegoat is who creating? What are you talking about, please read this thread.

Its not a debaite thread, its informative thread. In UK, we have a fat nation challange going on because UK is getting to be one of the fattest in Europe, but lookie, we're doing something about it.

This is an informative thread, not a looking for scapegoat, whatever that means.

It's not so much our change of lifestyle that makes us fat, but all the dubiouse growth hormones we induce in our cattle and eat, they work in us too.

No, its stuffing your faces with McDonnalds that makes you fat, the fact that you people dont walk anywhere but only drive and have no exercise.

Some fast food restaurants include extra lard in their food. So in reality you are not getting a 100% beef in a hamburger. Anyways, whatever people lifestyle is....it ain't none of my business. I have my nutrition to worry about. They want to stuft their faces with a daily dose of hamburgers.......well, let them! If they are happy eating those greasy hamburgers, then more power to them. I'm happy with myself and what I look like. If I get too fat.....I blame myself and no one else. Besides, being too thin and too skinny isn't healthy so I just leave it at that.

When I worked in the kitchen, i saw the way fries was made its swimming in fat...but when you eat it its super tasty

Eww that's so gross, Milla...

I know. I dont eat fries, my Sliming World diet doesnt allow it

But yeah...when you think about that, and then the burgers and then ho the fat looks in humans, its yellow it kinda makes you not wanna eat a lot

lil *****: humans would _not_ be as fat as they are today if we didn't feed our cattle (which in turn ends up in McDonalds) with growth hormones.

hehe didn't mean to call you any profanities.

I've never liked fast food before...but that's making me like it even less

(btw I love the quote in your sig ohyes)

at least its not the shittest place on earth like 'leek' god it is crap ... we are over run with charity shops cuz they are rent free over run with pubs... 58 to a small town and antique shops on every corner ... nothing for kids teenagers ...

God dang, lets diss America a little more shall we. I mean come on, who gives a shit about whos fat, skinny, whatever. So what if USA has fat people. Its there choice and just worry about your own weight.

There is only 1 reason why America is gaining so much weight......and that reason is......

..BEER!

I blame reality TV shows, there I said it.

People are too busy watching other peoples lives that they forget that they have one of their own to live and have fun with. Then they order pizza everynight while watching "Who wants to marry a donkey" and get fat and homely. Reality TV shows will be the demise of this world, mark my words.

laugh1 who wants to marry a donkey laugh1

The next reality show must be " who wants to marry a b!tch " Your right about everything you said.

Man, Omega, I wish people on reality shows could die. I'd watch that one. WHenever I accidentally watch that garbage I'm always wishing death on at least 75% of the people on screen.

You know, that's actually happened. Some guy raped and married his donkey....

wtf mate?

What, only 75 %????

Yeah, I feel guilty if I wish death on more people then that.

The exception is "The Real World". I want every single contestant to die on that show. I should hold fake auditions for that show, tell them that I'm auditioning for the next Real World, and then put them all in one building and burn it down.

hysterical

I suppose that might be better than being 'most bulimic' country...

I know Houston's won it in the past, but I thought Detroit edged out Houston this past year.

You might be right.

I saw a program on british TV about lipo-suction and they said that Houston is the fatest, i checked on the internet and it was there.

You could be right though.