Earlier last year, residents of Houston won a dubious distinction that hit them right at their waistlines. For the second year in a row, Houston has been ranked “America’s Fattest City,” according to the fourth annual report on the rankings of U.S. fat cities in Men’s Fitness magazine, published Jan. 8, 2002. Among the “fat cities,” Houston ranks first, followed by Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Dallas (Table 1). Using a similar methodology, this group of researchers commissioned by Men’s Fitness also comes up with a list of the fittest cities in the United States (Table 1). To arrive at their findings, the researchers evaluated the nation’s 50 largest cities between July, 2001, and September, 2001. Cities were assessed in 16 commensurate cat-
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