Best read while chanting, “We’re Number One!, We’re Number One, …”
Another award for the city of excess, this time the honor comes from Men’s Fitness magazine’s 9th Annual report on America’s fattest and fittest cities. Once again, Las Vegas came through with flying calories to defend the title, we also topped last year’s gluttony list.
Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman doesn’t exactly take exception with the dubious honor but said the magazine should list all of our many community centers including 43 recreation centers and 85 parks ensuring 65% of local residents live within half a mile of a park. He should have also mentioned that most of them are empty most of the time.
I can define the root cause for this blimping-up of Vegas in three words…Circus Circus Buffet.
The complete list of the “Fattest and Fittest Cities in America” is in the March, 2008 issue of Men’s Fitness, now available nationwide wherever magazines are sold.
Top ten lists of fattest and fittest American cities after the jump…