Let's Face It - We're Fatties

By Rachelle Bowden in News on Jan 7, 2005 1:14PM

For the second year in a row Chicago ranked America's 5th fattest city in a survey by Men's Fitness magazine. This year Houston ranked the fattest, beating out last year's fattest, Detroit. This is the 4th time in 5 years that Houston was ranked fattest. And the fittest? Seattle, then Honolulu, then Colorado Springs.

The top 25 fattest and fittest cities are determined by looking at 14 categories including air quality, total number of fast-food and pizza restaurants, time watching TV, air quality, and number of health clubs, parks, and sporting goods stores.

In the Gothamist family, not counting Londonist & Torontoist, Chicagoist is ranked just a bit fatter than Gothamist (New York ranked 8th fattest city). Apparently we need to take a cue from SFist, LAist and DCist, whose cities ranked 4th, 21st and 23rd most fit, respectively.