More Fat City
An addendum to all of these city studies: You probably didn’t miss that Detroit was recently named the country’s “fattest city.” This study got more press than the stress one, probably because fat is an easier thing to measure. However, Men’s Fitness, which conducted the survey, didn’t actually measure how fat people were in any city. Instead, they computed the rankings by counting things like gyms, fast food restaurants and television watching time - all things that inconclusive evidence might link to being fat or thin, but rather like picking the worst city for drunk-driving fatalities by counting liquor stores and roads.
Fox news noted that Detroit’s Mayor was 300+, then quoted him saying somthing about people in Detroit driving cars instead of walking, I think he was at the auto show.
posted by Steven B. Cherry on January 11th, 2004 at 11:24 pmDetroit has also regained the title it held from 1999-2001 as the nation’s most dangerous city. Fat and dangerous.
posted by Brian on January 12th, 2004 at 2:38 pmWho sez all the zillions of senseless surveys make any sense. All the probably do is pay some poor research assistant.
posted by Hirak on January 13th, 2004 at 11:46 pm