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America's Fittest Cities
Forbes Magazine ^ | May 24, 2010 | David Whelan

Posted on 05/24/2010 12:27:28 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Not all cities are equal from a fitness standpoint. In some big cities one in three people are obese; in others it's only one in five. In some cities there is one baseball diamond for every 10,000 people; in others there are five times as many ball fields.

So says this year's American Fitness Index report, published by the American College of Sports Medicine. It takes the biggest 50 metropolitan areas and ranks them by fitness levels. The top city on the list, now for three years running, is Washington, D.C. The least fit is Oklahoma City, Okla.

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: cities; fitness
The Mayor of "affluent Boston," for instance.
1 posted on 05/24/2010 12:27:28 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement

Another fake list based on baloney


2 posted on 05/24/2010 12:29:00 PM PDT by GeronL (Political Correctness Kills)
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To: ConservativeStatement
The top city on the list, now for three years running, is Washington, D.C.

What a load.

3 posted on 05/24/2010 12:30:30 PM PDT by Allegra (Pablo is very wily.)
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It’s up to the fatties to die early so the “fit” people can live on under Obamacare. It will spare the death panel any agonizing choices.


4 posted on 05/24/2010 12:30:46 PM PDT by chickadee
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We need to get a ranking of fitness by county to show that ‘rat cities are slackers, all.


5 posted on 05/24/2010 12:31:25 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Guarantee Oklahomans can kick DC-ites asses.


6 posted on 05/24/2010 12:36:29 PM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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“Guarantee Oklahomans can kick DC-ites asses”.

...maybe so. But the “DC-ites” would win in reciting the entire menu at Starbucks!


7 posted on 05/24/2010 12:45:41 PM PDT by albie
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Nice to see taxpayers money for their free or heavily subsidized healthcare, spas, vacations and fitness centers are making a difference. Wish I could get free gym membership and work release time to go there.


8 posted on 05/24/2010 12:47:01 PM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things)
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oklahoma sooners Pictures, Images and Photos

Oklahoma looks quite healthy from this vantage point.

9 posted on 05/24/2010 12:57:52 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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They obviously don't factor in the murder rate or the STD rate.
10 posted on 05/24/2010 1:03:57 PM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: ConservativeStatement

So a city with a 90%+ black population is the “fittest??!!” Yeah.


11 posted on 05/24/2010 1:11:10 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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That poor girl is about to lose a lung.


12 posted on 05/24/2010 1:11:19 PM PDT by csmusaret (Remember, half the people in this country are below average)
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The top city on the list, now for three years running, is Washington, D.C.

Maybe they meant that you gotta be quick to out-run the muggers.

13 posted on 05/24/2010 1:36:37 PM PDT by RedMDer (Throw them all out in 2010... Forward with Confidence! Forward!)
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The Joe Dirt balloon scene?


14 posted on 05/24/2010 3:26:22 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Judas Iscariot - the first social justice advocate. John 12:3-6)
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Awe shucks, Phoenix didn’t make the “10 Most Sluggish Cities” list.

When Crispy Creme went under I knew there would be consequences.


15 posted on 05/24/2010 3:31:04 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Judas Iscariot - the first social justice advocate. John 12:3-6)
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To: ConservativeStatement

“effluent Boston”


16 posted on 05/24/2010 3:33:53 PM PDT by afnamvet (Patriots Rising)
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