Are you thinking about a new fitness plan?  The people in the Top 10 Fattest cities are battling obesity on a daily basis and are unfortunately losing according to the team at Gallup-Healthways. So brush off you sports outfit and running shoes and review this list of Top 10 workouts for abs so that your city does not end up on this list of Top 10 fattest cities.

1.     McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas      Obesity rate: 38.8 percent

2.     Binghamton, New York                37.6%

3.     Huntington-Ashland, West Virginia-Kentucky-Ohio                        36%

4.     Rockford, Illinois    35.5%

5.     Beaumont-Port Arthur, Texas    33.8%

6.     Charleston, West Virginia            33.8%

7.     Lakeland-Winter Haven, Florida                        33.5%

8.     Topeka, Kansas                   33.3%

9.     Kennewick-Pasco-Richland, Washington        33.2%

10.                          Reading, Pennsylvania                32.7%

Are you heading to the gym now?

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According to a recent article, the folks in the Top 10 list of worst dressed cities have given up on fashion for practical reasons.  Some of the cities make sense, but some are surprising.  So please put on your best clothes when your visit any of the cities on the Top 10 worst dressed cities in order to help them escape from this list.

1.     Anchorage 

2.     Salt Lake City 

3.     Baltimore 

4.     Orlando 

5.     San Antonio, TX 

6.     Dallas / Fort Worth 

7.     Atlanta 

8.     Portland, Maine 

9.     Phoenix 

10.                      Kansas City, MO 

Which city would you add to the list of worst dressed?

Full article at T&L

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 Happy New Year! Did you drink a little too much to bring in the new year?

If you live in one of these Top 10 Drinking Cities then you probably were moving a little slow on New Year’s Day.  The team at The Daily Beast put together the most drunken cities list by taking into account statistics like average number of drinks per month, population over 21 years old, binge drinking and heavy drinking.  So grab a cold one and see if your city made this Top 10 List.

1.     Boston, MA – (Avg. Monthly Drinks per Person: 15.5)

2.     Springfield, MA

3.     Milwaukee, WI

4.     Reno, NV

5.     San Antonio, TX

6.     Chicago, IL

7.     Austin, TX

8.     St. Louis, MO

9.     San Diego, CA

10.       Tuscon, AZ

Check out the Top 25 list at Daily Beast to see more.  

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According to recent FBI statistics, violent crime is down compared to recent years but certain cities continue to remain in the list of Top 10 most violent urban areas.  Most of the troubled cities are in the northeast and struggle with poverty and a high cost of living.  Many will be surprised that our nation’s capital, Washington DC did not make the list.  The FBI ranks the cities based on violent crimes per 1000 people.

Here are the Top 10 most violent cities per capita:

1.     Flint, Michigan (Violent crime per 1,000: 22)

2.     Detroit, Michigan  (18.9)

3.     St. Louis, Missouri  (17.5)

4.     New Haven , Connecticut (15.8)

5.     Memphis, Tennessee (15.4)

6.     Oakland, California (15.3)

7.     Little Rock, Arkansas (15.2)

8.     Baltimore, Maryland (14.6)

9.     Rockford, Illinois (14.5)

10.           Stockton, California (13.8)

Which city on this top 10 list is the most appealing to you?

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How does your city rank among the healthy and most fit cities in the USA?  If you live in Oklahoma City, your city ranks last among the list of Top 50 fittest cities.  The most recent survey by the American College of Sports Medicine ranks the cities based on smoking, obesity rates and many other factors like percentage of people that exercise to lose weight. There are many reasons to exercise, but many people workout just to have a great body. So head to the gym and help move your city up the list of healthy and fit cities.

Top 10 Healthiest and Most Fit Cities:

1. Minneapolis-St. Paul
2. Washington, D.C.
3. Boston
4. Portland, Ore.
5. Denver
6. San Francisco
7. Hartford, Conn.
8. Seattle
9. Virginia Beach
10. Sacramento

Which of the Top 10 cities would you want spend the most time?

Check out the rest of the list at  americanfitnessindex.org.

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Are you rude to your neighbors and visitors to your fair city?  You may be more obnoxious than you think if live in of the Top 10 rudest cities in the United States.  So the next time you visit the Magic Kingdom in Orlando, realize that you are in the Top 10 rudest cities according to Travel and Leisure magazine.

Here are the Top 10 Rudest Cities in the United States:

1.     Los Angeles – Wouldn’t you be upset if you lived here?

2.     New York City – They are not rude, they just don’t see you

3.     Philadelphia – The city of brotherly love?

4.     Miami – A melting pot of culture and displaced New Yorkers

5.      Washington DC – A city known for deceit

6.     Boston – If the Red Sox don’t win, they can be a bit persnickety

7.     Baltimore – The dirty little brother of DC

8.     Las Vegas – No cash, No Friends – Welcome to Vegas

9.     Orlando – How would like to host millions of Amusement parks

10.  Dallas – A concrete jungle will take its toll on anyone

Which city ranks #1 as your most rude city in the United States? 

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How does your city rank when it comes to finding a little time for nookie? According to Men’s Health, the best way to gauge for high levels of sex within a city is to measure condom sales, birth rates, sex toy sales and rates of STD’s. How does Las Vegas not top the list? So let’s find out if you town ranks in the Top 10 cities for Sex in the list below:

1.     Austin, TX

2.     Dallas, TX

3.     Columbus, OH

4.     Durham, NC

5.     Denver, CO

6.     Indianapolis, IN

7.     Arlington, TX

8.     Oklahoma City, OK

9.     Bakersfield, CA

10.   Houston, TX

They must like it hot is Texas.

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Terrible weather, sub-par schools and just overall not a fun place to live – Forbes has put together a list of the worst cities to live in and Cleveland tops the list.  Surprise!  Not really.  Here are a few more of the most miserable cities to live in:

·         Cleveland

·         Memphis

·         Detroit

Miami made the list but Miami is a mixed bag.

Forget the worst places – Go somewhere cool like Vegas Baby! – here is a list of the  Best thing to do in Las Vegas . 

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