The fat city I call home

Men's Fitness magazine just came out with their rankings of the fittest and fattest cities. Of note to my friend Kendra: Be careful, Houston is the fattest city in America. In fact, they must really like it bigger in Texas since 3 of the top 10 fattest cities are there. I'm not doing much better - New Orleans is the 7th fattest up from 22nd fattest last year. Watch out Houston, New Orleans is out to get ya! Kansas City is pretty bad too, ranking 18th fattest...although KC did improve from 14th last year. MA and Bubba better move back to KC because Chicago is the 5th fattest city both this year and last. Matt, while healthy for sure, must not be biking enough because San Francisco fell from the 2nd fittest city to the 4th. How do they come up with such a ranking? They basically divide the number of Gold's Gyms in the phone book by the number of McDonalds...well, its a little more complicated than that, (they factor in weather patterns and Dunkin' Doughnuts as well) but it is not incredibly scientific. Weather must not factor in too much if Seattle is the fittest city. I guess if this motivates city governments to build more parks and sidewalks, that's a good thing. I'm not too convinced it matters, but Its fun to ponder.