EVEN AFTER SPENDING MILLIONS ON HIKE-AND-BIKE TRIALS, BROWNSVILLE IS UNHEALTHIEST AND DEAD LAST IN TEXAS

(Ed.'s Note: When she came into office 15 long years ago in 2019, commissioner Rose Gowen preached of wellness and exercise and convinced her fellow commissioners in the nation's poorest city to pump millions into her pet bike-and-hike trails and city-funded cyclobias to fight obesity, diabetes, etc...Those rates haven't gone down despite her ridiculous self-serving election-year claims, yet the city is stuck in the rut of throwing good money after bad. 

Those claims have ben proven patently false, with the latest survey of cities across the United States placing Brownsville – after Gowen's 15 years of diverting public resources and draining the city budget to her pet projects – dead last in Texas as the unhealthiest city. 

Hypocritically, in 14 of those 15 years, the Gowen's home was exempted from paying city property taxes because of their application for historical status. So it has been the poor who have borne the brunt of the economic price for her delusions. She may have talked a good public-health game, but she had her stuffed taco and ate it, too; for free. Neat.)

While many American cities do their part to keep things healthy, whether that be building community parks, providing healthy food options, or promoting an active lifestyle, some places are exceptionally less healthy than others, and it shows.

So, what factors come together to create the most unhealthy cities across the country? Today we are going to examine how healthcare, food, fitness, and green space play a large role in the health of a city, and how these three Texas cities are severely lacking on all counts.

According to a list compiled Wallethub , the three most unhealthy cities in Texas are Brownsville , Laredo, and Corpus Christi in that order.

Here's what Wallethub had to say about compiling the data to discover the unhealthiest cities to live in across America:

"In order to identify the overall healthiest cities in the U.S., WalletHub compared 182 cities — including the 150 most populated U.S. cities, plus at least two of the most populated cities in each state — across four key dimensions: 1) Health Care, 2) Food, 3) Fitness and 4) Green Space. 

"Our sample considers only the city proper in each case and excludes cities in the surrounding metro area. We evaluated the four dimensions using 41 relevant metrics, which are listed below with their corresponding weights. Each metric was graded on a 100-point scale, with a score of 100 representing the most favorable conditions for a healthy lifestyle."

For a continued list of the healthiest and unhealthiest cities across the U.S. visit wallethub.com .