What’s the Fittest City in America?


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Where do all the healthy people live? I’s gotta be San Francisco — everyone in the Bay Area is training for a triathlon, right? Or maybe it’Denver where everyone hikes to work or whatever. Nope, turns out it’s…Washington D.C. Apparently, the buttoned-up beltway crowd sweats it out after all those boring committee meetings. The District has now topped the American College of Sports Medicine’s list three years running. Bottom of the list: Oklahoma City. The rankings take into account a whole slew of factors like disease rates, mortality, number of parks, pools, and other facilities, and lifestyle factors like how many fruits and vegetables people in the city eat a day. Turns out D.C. is packed with bike lanes, lots of D.C. folks are getting their five-a-day, and the city has a significantly lower diabetes rate than the nation as a whole. See where your city stacks up on the American Fitness Index info-map. (via Forbes)

Guess where I live? Right outside D.C….


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