Men’s Fitness unleashed its list of the fittest and fattest cities of 2014.
Congratulations to Memphis, Tennessee, home of the fattiest people in America. A big double middle finger salute to Portland, Oregon, making everyone feel bad about our lard.
Here’s the criteria for a major magazine to call your metropolis a bunch of porkers.
We started with the 50 most populous cities in the nation, then compiled and studied statistics in several health- and fitness-related categories. Among them were air quality, access to healthy foods, general wellbeing, the quality of parks and so-called “urban forests,” as well as bike- and walk-friendliness. We also sorted through data on how active citizens are, from their weight training habits on down to how many are bike commuters, and the effect it has on their body composition—fit, overweight, or plain fat. The fittest in each category was awarded 50 points and, for the most part, the worst was awarded one lowly point (a few categories used weighted averages).
So here’s the complete list, from fittest to fattest. I think. It’s not exactly clear. And that map at the top of the page doesn’t do shit.
Fuck it, where are the cronuts?
[via Men’s Fitness]