Sep 3rd 2009 3:21PM
By Digital City Staff
For more on how Men's Health ranked and graded these 100 cities,
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The City
| Their Grade
|
|
1. Arlington, Tex.
|
F |
| 2. Anchorage, Alaska |
F |
| 3. Charlotte, N. C. |
F |
| 4. Sioux Falls, S. D. |
F |
| 5. Raleigh, N. C. |
F |
| 6. Indianapolis, Ind. |
F |
| 7. Fremont, Calif. |
F |
| 8. Jacksonville, Fla. |
F |
| 9. Lexington, Ky. |
F |
| 10. Wichita, Kan. |
F |
| 11. Aurora, Colo. |
F |
| 12. Boise, Idaho |
F |
| 13. Colorado Springs, Colo. |
F |
| 14. Bakersfield, Calif. |
F |
| 15. San Jose, Calif. |
D - |
| 16. San Antonio, Tex. |
D - |
| 17. Fort Worth, Tex. |
D - |
| 18. Phoenix, Ariz. |
D - |
| 19. Columbus, Ohio |
D - |
| 20. Durham, N. C. |
D - |
| 21. Anaheim, Calif. |
D - |
| 22. Houston, Tex. |
D - |
| 23. Greensboro, N. C. |
D |
| 24. Montgomery, Ala. |
D |
| 25. Lincoln, Neb. |
D |
| 26. Kansas City, Mo. |
D |
| 27. Riverside, Calif. |
D |
| 28. Las Vegas, Nev. |
D |
| 29. Nashville, Tenn. |
D |
| 30. Corpus Christi, Tex. |
D |
| 31. Fort Wayne, Ind. |
D + |
| 32. Omaha, Neb. |
D + |
| 33. Des Moines, Iowa |
D + |
| 34. Oklahoma City, Okla. |
D + |
35. Modesto, Calif.
|
D + |
| 36. St. Paul, Minn. |
D + |
| 37. Dallas, Tex. |
D + |
| 38. Grand Rapids, Mich. |
D + |
| 39. El Paso, Tex. |
D + |
| 40. San Diego, Calif. |
D + |
| 41. Fargo, N. D. |
D + |
| 42. Little Rock, Ark. |
C - |
| 43. Madison, Wis. |
C - |
| 44. Jackson, Miss. |
C - |
| 45. Fresno, Calif. |
C - |
| 46. Manchester, N. H. |
C - |
| 47. Albuquerque, N. M. |
C - |
| 48. Jersey City, N. J. |
C - |
| 49. Chicago, Ill. |
C - |
| 50. Austin, Tex. |
C - |
| 51. Memphis, Tenn. |
C |
| 52. Billings, Mont. |
C |
| 53. Tulsa, Okla. |
C |
| 54. Cheyenne, Wyo. |
C |
| 55. Toledo, Ohio |
C |
| 56. Los Angeles, Calif. |
C |
| 57. Lubbock, Tex. |
C |
| 58. Salt Lake City, Utah |
C |
| 59. Sacramento, Calif. |
C |
| 60. Portland, Ore. |
C |
| 61. Detroit, Mich. |
C + |
| 62. Minneapolis, Minn. |
C + |
| 63. Seattle, Wash. |
C + |
| 64. Oakland, Calif. |
C + |
| 65. Denver, Colo. |
B - |
| 66. Columbia, S. C. |
B - |
| 67. Milwaukee, Wis. |
B - |
| 68. Boston, Mass. |
B - |
| 69. Honolulu, Hawaii |
B - |
| 70. Norfolk, Va. |
B - |
| 71. Charleston, W. Va. |
B - |
| 72. Baton Rouge, La. |
B - |
| 73. Yonkers, N. Y. |
B - |
| 74. San Francisco, Calif. |
B - |
| 75. Birmingham, Ala. |
B - |
| 76. Atlanta, Ga. |
B - |
| 77. New York, N. Y. |
B - |
| 78. Wilmington, Del. |
B - |
| 79. Spokane, Wash. |
B |
| 80. Orlando, Fla. |
B |
| 81. Burlington, Vt. |
B |
| 82. St. Petersburg, Fla. |
B |
| 83. Philadelphia, Pa. |
B + |
| 84. Tampa, Fla. |
B + |
| 85. Baltimore, Md. |
B + |
| 86. Newark, N. J. |
B + |
| 87. St. Louis, Mo. |
B + |
| 88. Cincinnati, Ohio |
B + |
| 89. Washington, D. C. |
B + |
| 90. Tucson, Ariz. |
B + |
| 91. Cleveland, Ohio |
B + |
| 92. Louisville, Ky. |
B + |
| 93. Bangor, Maine |
A - |
| 94. Richmond, Va. |
A - |
| 95. Providence, R. I. |
A - |
| 96. Rochester, N. Y. |
A - |
| 97. Miami, Fla. |
A |
| 98. Pittsburgh, Pa. |
A |
| 99. Hartford, Conn. |
A |
| 100. Buffalo, N. Y. |
A + |
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Posted on Sep 4th 2009
By Amil
Woohoo! Go Buffalo! As a Buffalonian for almost a decade now, I love this city more and more! We also have the most pools per capita, the most restaurants per capita than any other city it's size and the best football team in the world!
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Posted on Sep 4th 2009
By Lassie
Interesting! The top 10 cities are all over the place location-wise, I would have thought they would all be down south where the population is always accused of being too darn fat - or lots of retirees who don't want to cook anymore.... Food is expensive in Alaska, probably cheaper to just go out to eat.... And so many cities in Texas! Why is that, do you think?
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Posted on Sep 6th 2009
By Kirbie
Many of these are cities with universities. I'm sure that has contributed to the numbers because of college students' notoriously poor eating habits.
@ Lassie, the South has poor eating habits, but I would wager that most of them are not attributed to fast food. I am from Louisiana which has one of the highest obesity rates in the country. Louisiana's obesity problems are better attributed to eating a lot of fried food, and cajun and creole cooking, than from eating fast food. Everything revolves around dense calorie laden home-cooked foods from gumbos to fried catfish. I cannot speak for the other southern states, but it would seem to me that they have similar fat issues that are not necessarily due to fast food, although it is a contributing factor.
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Posted on Sep 4th 2009
By JET BOND
I guess no one has seen the in harbor in baltimore all you see is mcdonalds wrappers and pototoe chip bags in the water . You don't see all the kids from the schools in the morning all over weight and eating junk . Balt. was once a nice city but it has been trashed by fast food and the mess it makes . I work there and you watch people all day long throw there fast food trash on the ground . you got to be kidding a grade of B THIS IS BOGUS
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Posted on Sep 4th 2009
By Jenni
I'm surprised Miami, FL is 97!
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Posted on Sep 4th 2009
By rob shultz
Its not the fast foods fault that the trash in Baltimore is throwing trash in Baltimore. Since when was Baltimore a nice city anyway? There is most likely a Starbucks next to your Burger King but you will never see Satrbucks garbage.
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Posted on Sep 4th 2009
By Carl Johnson
The huge problem with this list is that it only looks at major chain fast food and it completely ignores the little deli's and Mom & Pop fast food stores. Some U.S. cities have a huge percentage of major fast food chains. Many U.S. cities have a much smaller percentage of fast food chains........ but their residents still eat tremendous ammounts of artery plugging crap from little independent deli's, family restaurants and little independent fast food joints. That makes this list completely bogus.
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Posted on Sep 4th 2009
By Bob
Give me a break. Who actually believes this stuff? Aurora, CO gets an F, and Denver gets a B-? These cities border each other! Their populations mimic each other. It is one big metro area. How can the "researchers" find such disparity between these two cities?
Junk media, I say.
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Posted on Sep 4th 2009
By gamay9
Madison, WI is a large university city. Eliminate that city. Madison has a reputation of being health-minded and physically active.
You know more include Madison in the list than you would Austin, TX.
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Posted on Sep 4th 2009
By kiki
wow....my town should of been there....its kearny, NJ...the closest thing we have to a fast food restraunt is a quick check!
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Posted on Sep 4th 2009
By dom
it clearly shows east coast people are way more civilized than the dirty slobs out west.
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Posted on Sep 4th 2009
By Cora
I agree that this "study" seems off. That somehow Cincinnati Ohio eats better than San Francisco California is a flat out falsehood. I know this personally. It simply is not so, is not possible, is positively preposterous.
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Posted on Sep 4th 2009
By Bilbo
You're just mad you don't have our kicka$$ chili. Run along now.
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Posted on Sep 4th 2009
By James
I noticed Bakersfield, California is high on the list. The redneck capital of Southern California rightfully deserves to be recognized for its achievement. Rlidgecrest is a smilar community about an hour away. Most every pot-holed one drives on has a fast-foold eartery.
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Posted on Sep 4th 2009
By N. GARTNER
YOU GOT THAT RIGHT! I JUST GOT BACK TO THE BAY AREA AFTER SPENDING 2 WEEKS IN MY HOMETOWN OF CINCINNATI. I HAD SKYLINE CHILI 4 TIMES, MCDONALDS 2X, AND LAROSA'S PIZZA.
CINCY HAS THE BEST JUNK FOOD ANYWHERE...BAR NONE..THOUGHT IT WOULD BE IN TOP 5!
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