Magazine Names Honolulu the Fittest City

[La_Serpiente]

Yeah Honolulu :-)

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Magazine Names Honolulu the Fittest City

NEW YORK - A new survey by Men's Fitness magazine shows Honolulu is the fittest city in the country for the second straight year, followed by San Francisco and Virginia Beach, Va.

The fitness magazine rated the nation's 50 largest cities using 14 criteria, including the number of health clubs and sporting goods stores per 100,000 people; fruit and vegetable consumption; commute times; and the number of public basketball and tennis courts, golf courses and swimming pools per capita.

Denver; Colorado Springs, Colo.; Seattle; Boston; Portland, Ore.; Tucson, Ariz.; and Sacramento, Calif., rounded out the top 10 list. The magazine will hit newsstands on Tuesday.

This is the fourth consecutive year Virginia Beach has been placed among the top 10 fittest cities. "I think it shows that Virginia Beach has multiple opportunities for recreation and that people are taking advantage of it," said recreationist and City Councilman Jim Reeve. "We're getting off the couch. Good!"

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Magazine Names Honolulu the Fittest City

[Robb]

1. 2 cities in Colorado

By my count we win! We win!!! ;)

I blame myself, I started doing situps. :silly:

[TrueAmerican]

2. I lived in Honolulu

And if that is the fittest city in the United States. We are in BIG trouble.

[pmbryant]

4. Me too

No way is that the fittest city. I don't see how it makes the grade even by the silly criteria they use. Unless it has sure changed a lot in the last 5 years since I left.

:shrug:

--Peter

[KamaAina]

22. Somewhat tubby Honolulan here

tho' I packed the poundage on back East...

The criteria are heavily weighted toward the availability of such healthful recreation as hiking, ocean swimming, etc. All those things certainly are available here, and thousands take advantage of them daily.

Trouble is, it's thousands of tourists, and maybe a few students from UH-Manoa: in any case, people from away.

Then again, there's consumption of fast food. Thousands of us daily skirt the edge of that one by consuming the classic local plate lunch: a slab of (often fatty) meat atop two scoops of rice, plus a scoop of something called "mac salad": cooked elbow macaroni drenched in mayo :puke: But if it doesn't come from Mickey D's or Jack in the Box, the magazine doesn't count it as "fast food", so we win!!

[Bronco69]

3. The only reason people are fit in Virginia Beach

is from running away from Pat Robertson! :-)

[joeybee12]

5. This poll is f**ked up if Los Angeles isn't in the top 5! Come on, anyone

ever live there? Everyone wants to be in the movie biz so they're fantatically fit and health-conscious.

[HuckleB]

9. That's actually a very small portion of the population.

[joeybee12]

11. Not from my persepctive....

...it wasn't.

[HuckleB]

14. If you say so...

it's a rather large city, you know.

[joeybee12]

17. True, but there's a large part that's near the ocean, and since it's

always warm, people are more into their looks because of that as well. I think that's the reason Honolulu made it to the top--come on, if you're gonna be a in swimsuit all day, you're gonna try to keep the fat off.

[HuckleB]

19. Again, that's really a small minority.

I've spent time working in many parts of that city where fitness just isn't the be all end all.

[joeybee12]

20. I'm looking at their criteria, and it still seems to me that Angelenos

would be high in all of them--not only gyms, but fruit and evegetable consumption especially. Length of commute would be a killer, though.

[HuckleB]

21. Not per capita.

You are looking at a small portion of the population. You can't generalize from that upon the whole.

[GOPisEvil]

6. Go Texas!

5 of the top 10 FATTEST cities. Is any of us really surprised? ;-) I used to live in Fat Antonio, but now i reside in relatively healthy Austin (I think we are 25th).

[Ilsa]

7. I'm surprised about DFW being on the list.

When I lived there, many people in D were vain and very self-conscious about their appearance and keeping up with the Joneses. Maybe the resurgence of overweight Southern Baptists has skewed the average. (My observation of SBs is that they eat way too much at their social functions, and what they eat is heavy casseroles made with very fattening, high sodium soups, but that is just my opinion.)

San Antonio has high rates of diabetes, also, IIRC. Some of that is poor eating habits related to poverty.

[GOPisEvil]

8. "Some of that is poor eating habits related to poverty."

Very true, along with the lard in the refried beans. ;-)

[Ilsa]

13. Yeah, and the fatty refrieds cost about half of what

the low fat refrieds costs.

I love low fat refried beans.

[GOPisEvil]

16. But in Mexican restaurants...

...it's all lard, all time. In the flour tortillas, in the beans, used to cook the meat...At least the mom and pop places anyway.

[Randi_Listener]

18. Fort Worth

I was in FW a few weeks ago. The Gold's Gym there was empty and there were fatties everywhere on the downtown streets.

[bif]

10. Detroit's gotta be at the bottom of the list.

We lead the country in consumption of both potato chips and ice cream.

[GOPisEvil]

12. Detroit took the title of fattest city from Houston.

:-)

[bif]

15. Good. At least we're the best at something!

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