San Diego is one of America’s Fattest Cities…

Published on January 15, 2009 by in 12 week challenge, blog, General Fitness, Nutrition and Diet

0

…At least according to the “experts” at Mens’ Health in their latest issue. The magazine ranked the top 50 U.S. cities based on a research survey looking at sports participation, number of fitness clubs, air quality, commuting time among others. Somehow San Diego finished behind metropolitan fitness meccas such as Kansas City, St. Louis, Omaha, Nebraska and Pittsburgh.

I’m still scratching my head on this ranking. Unless BBQ is considered a sport or a nutritious food group, I’m not sure how Kansas City beats San Diego as a fitness city. To top those cities, Honolulu ranked in the top 10 of fittest cities, leading the way with an ‘A’ ranking for nutrition, apparently paralleling the release of Diet-SPAM and and an all-organic version…

Here’s how San Diego did on the ranking:

  • Fitness Centers & Sport Stores: C
  • Nutrition: A-
  • Sports Participation: D+
  • TV Viewing: A-
  • Overweight/Sedentary: B
  • Junk Food: B-
  • Air Quality: F+
  • Geography: A
  • Commute: F
  • Parks & Open Space: B+
  • City Rec Facilities: F
  • Access to Healthcare: F+
  • Motivation: F
  • Mayor & City Initiatives: C-
  • State Obesity Initiatives: A
    • Hard to understand how a place where its currently 70 degrees and sunny in January gets an ‘F’ for the motivation factor. If you need more motivation, join us for our San Diego Fitness 101 Boot Camp Challenge.
     The ‘Access to Healthcare’ rating also doesn’t make sense to me – If you need a sports medicine doctor in San Diego – give us a call at 858-678-0300 and we’ll get you in. ..
    Here’s the link to the Men’s Health article.

    Related posts:

    1. 12 Week Fitness and Health Challenge – Step 1 – Why?

    Leave a Reply