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The West Coast is home to some of the healthiest cities in America.
According to a study from WalletHub, San Francisco is the healthiest city in the U.S., followed by Seattle, San Diego, Portland, and Washington, D.C.
WalletHub calculated the data by comparing 174 cities across four weighted dimensions: health care, food, fitness, and green space.
One of the factors was the lowest premature death rate. Nearly all of the top cities are located in California, much like the percentage of adults eating enough fruits/vegetables per day.
The West Coast also has the highest percentage of physically active adults. This may be why San Francisco took the top spot — it has the most walking trails per capita and the most running trails per capita.
The South contains most unhealthy cities
Meanwhile, the unhealthiest cities in the U.S. are overwhelmingly found in the South. Brownsville, Texas, is the least healthy spot in the nation and two other Texas cities made the list, along with two in Alabama, two in Georgia, and two in Mississippi.
“Those states in particular have high [obesity] rates, and I’m sure their physical activity is rather low,” Dr. Charles Platkin, the director of the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center and editor of DietDetective.com, told Yahoo Finance.
“It’s cultural … around food and eating. Probably a more relaxed atmosphere, more rural in some of the urban centers. Hence the high levels of walkability or concerns about healthy eating or concerns about lifestyle. Whereas in those states, they have higher levels of blue collar workers.”
(Ed.'s Note: All this - having walking trails, watching your diet, etc. - would make sense if the city had the basic municipal amenities already in place. There is also the inconvenient fact that the local population is subject to a depressed border economy, low educational levels, a traditional penchant of employers to pay the minimum wage to local workers and pit them against their Matamoros neighbors, etc., that the residents of other cities aren't. And of course, the simple necessities like a credible drainage system to prevent the chronic flooding that destroys roads, wrecks vehicles, and drains the public budget. Only once these factors are weighed in can we have the luxury of engaging in middle-class expenditures like hike-and-bike trails, cyclobias, and other frills as the "healthy" cities do. To skip these necessary steps and make believe Brownsville can compete with the cities that already posses the basic physical and social infrastructure is being delusional.)
So let me understand this: thanks to the demonRATS were the POOREST CITY IN THE COUNTRY I don't know if people remember or know this but prior to been given the title the poorest city, Browntown was crown the least "ROMANTIC" PEOPLE/CITY IN THE COUNTRY!!!! NOW thanks to the demonRATS THE LEAST HEALTHY CITY IN THE COUNTRY!!!!!! WOW!!!!!
The fact that you people keep voting for demonRATAS its official you're MENTALLY ILL...KOO KOO...INSANE !!!! The definition of mental illness is repeating the same word/actions and expect different outcome.
W A K E U P!!!!!! JOIN THE WALK AWAY MOVEMENT!!!!! SAVE YOUR SELF YOUR SOUL...SI SE PUEDE!!!!!!
Having just finished with a new specialist in Brownsville I'm back to San Antonio. His lack of knowledge of shunting and how to valve works was shocking. We seem to draw the bottom of the barrel. So the city with probably one of the highest HIV rates and homelessness is the healthiest and the city of masa y grasa is the unhealthiest.
The article says the majority of "West Coast people are physically active." The majority of the people in Brownsville are "physically active" too, because the majority of Brownsville residents do manual labor to make a living. So what is the difference between San Fransisco and Brownsville? Let me tell you. Fruits and vegetables and availability at a reasonable price! The article goes on to say that San Fransisco has "locally grown vegetables and fruit." Even though Brownsville is the "winter garden" for the North, our local Farmer's Market has prices only the wealthy can afford. (They call it "organic"...) Eating cheap and healthy is a basic criteria for living healthy. The cheapest and most available breakfast in Brownsville is a flour tortilla taco rolled with greasy eggs and fatty meat at Stripes Laredo Taco, which has more outlets than you can count. The line is out the door at 7am with young school kids and, at 10:30, when they discount the shriveled breakfast tacos, the old and homeless. The restaurants, lauded by Brownsville Economic Development Corporation, that have opened in Brownsville within the past 10 years are chains of Italian and "Wing Stops", and other unhealthy choices. Is BEDC to blame because they were offered more money from these chains than supporting local upstarts? Yes, they are. Brownsville is fucked both ways.
WHAT BIKE TRAIL??? I can't even get to work and back on a bike trail . If Rose whateverhernameis would give me a map and a free yoga class in the park I might be able to cope with this.
DONT BLAME democrats, republicans or FAT TRUMP. YOU control your body. 8 months ago I was 181 lbs. I DID NOT join a gym, DID NOT sign up for greatest loser, I make my own ham and eggs, eat a lot of vegetables, cut the carbs, jog 2 miles (or more) 3 days a week, swim 4 days a week, GET AWAY from pan dulce, flour tortillas, get off your butt and walk to the store; stop watching novelas and eating junk food at night. At 140 lbs, I can say IT IS WORTH IT, it is not a matter of rich or poor, it is not a matter of mexicans vs. gringos, it is a matter of DISCIPLINE. By the way, who counted the fat people in the cities to determine the ranking?
I always see a lot of people running and walking in all the city parks seems like a no-brainer to built trails for walkers and runners NOT BIKE TRAILS PENDEJOS....
You the fuk did they polled to say brownsville is the least healthy city? One of the polled had to be Health Director, Art "El Marrano Negro" Rodriguez! lol As Health Director, he should set the example of a healthy lifestyle, but with his salary he can afford to eat like a Burger king! lol
Ah yes, Browntown under Mexican leadership. The poorest, least educated and unhealthiest community in the US. Likely the most corrupt as well. You putos should be missing the gringos about now.
Go East coast where you will find the poorest, least educated and unhealthiest community in the US and most corrupt as well. Missing the gringos - THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN IDIOTA
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So let me understand this:
thanks to the demonRATS were the POOREST CITY IN THE COUNTRY
I don't know if people remember or know this but prior to been given the title the poorest city, Browntown was crown the least "ROMANTIC" PEOPLE/CITY IN THE COUNTRY!!!!
NOW thanks to the demonRATS THE LEAST HEALTHY CITY IN THE COUNTRY!!!!!!
WOW!!!!!
The fact that you people keep voting for demonRATAS its official you're MENTALLY ILL...KOO KOO...INSANE !!!! The definition of mental illness is repeating the same word/actions and expect different outcome.
W A K E U P!!!!!! JOIN THE WALK AWAY MOVEMENT!!!!! SAVE YOUR SELF YOUR SOUL...SI SE PUEDE!!!!!!
Having just finished with a new specialist in Brownsville I'm back to San Antonio. His lack of knowledge of shunting and how to valve works was shocking. We seem to draw the bottom of the barrel. So the city with probably one of the highest HIV rates and homelessness is the healthiest and the city of masa y grasa is the unhealthiest.
Bobby WC.
The article says the majority of "West Coast people are physically active." The majority of the people in Brownsville are "physically active" too, because the majority of Brownsville residents do manual labor to make a living. So what is the difference between San Fransisco and Brownsville? Let me tell you.
Fruits and vegetables and availability at a reasonable price! The article goes on to say that San Fransisco has "locally grown vegetables and fruit." Even though Brownsville is the "winter garden" for the North, our local Farmer's Market has prices only the wealthy can afford. (They call it "organic"...)
Eating cheap and healthy is a basic criteria for living healthy. The cheapest and most available breakfast in Brownsville is a flour tortilla taco rolled with greasy eggs and fatty meat at Stripes Laredo Taco, which has more outlets than you can count. The line is out the door at 7am with young school kids and, at 10:30, when they discount the shriveled breakfast tacos, the old and homeless.
The restaurants, lauded by Brownsville Economic Development Corporation, that have opened in Brownsville within the past 10 years are chains of Italian and "Wing Stops", and other unhealthy choices. Is BEDC to blame because they were offered more money from these chains than supporting local upstarts? Yes, they are.
Brownsville is fucked both ways.
What about BEDC approving all the chicken joints in town? Pizza, pollo and tacos. That's all we have. And not one is on a "bike trail"...
WHAT BIKE TRAIL??? I can't even get to work and back on a bike trail . If Rose whateverhernameis would give me a map and a free yoga class in the park I might be able to cope with this.
DONT BLAME democrats, republicans or FAT TRUMP. YOU control your body. 8 months ago I was 181 lbs. I DID NOT join a gym, DID NOT sign up for greatest loser, I make my own ham and eggs, eat a lot of vegetables, cut the carbs, jog 2 miles (or more) 3 days a week, swim 4 days a week, GET AWAY from pan dulce, flour tortillas, get off your butt and walk to the store; stop watching novelas and eating junk food at night. At 140 lbs, I can say IT IS WORTH IT, it is not a matter of rich or poor, it is not a matter of mexicans vs. gringos, it is a matter of DISCIPLINE.
By the way, who counted the fat people in the cities to determine the ranking?
I always see a lot of people running and walking in all the city parks seems like a no-brainer to built trails for walkers and runners NOT BIKE TRAILS PENDEJOS....
According to a recent survey McAllen is the FAT city of the RGV
You mean FAT HEADS at mcallen...
The city of maricones mcallen
Art "La Marrana Negra" Rodriguez needs to use that bike trail I tell you! What a disgrace to represent the health department, are you kidding me??
You the fuk did they polled to say brownsville is the least healthy city? One of the polled had to be Health Director, Art "El Marrano Negro" Rodriguez! lol As Health Director, he should set the example of a healthy lifestyle, but with his salary he can afford to eat like a Burger king! lol
Ah yes, Browntown under Mexican leadership. The poorest, least educated and unhealthiest community in the US. Likely the most corrupt as well. You putos should be missing the gringos about now.
You forgot "and the rinches" pendejo @September 17, 2019 at 2:12 PM pinches gringos can't do shit without backups
Go East coast where you will find the poorest, least educated and unhealthiest community in the US and most corrupt as well. Missing the gringos - THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN IDIOTA
In the pic if he was in mcallen he'd be FAT
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