America’s Most Sinful Cities

By Alex in Travel on Feb 29, 2008 at 1:49 am

Forbes has posted their list of America’s Most Sinful Cities, organized by the categories of the seven deadly sins.

For instance, take sloth. Here’s America’s Most Sedentary City:

Memphis, Tenn.
Rank: 1

This southern city on the banks of the Mississippi lands first on our list after ranking in the top 10 of each of our categories. Though efforts are underway to improve parks and outdoor recreation areas, the whole of Memphis hasn’t quite caught up with the area’s new vision. Slightly behind the national rate of 66%, about 65% of the city’s population is obese or overweight, and residents average 41 hours of television watching per week. It also ranked close to the top where physical inactivity was concerned: when asked, 30% of its inhabitants hadn’t exercised regularly.

Memphis also ranked first for gluttony: it’s also America’s Most Obese City.

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Johannes
Feb 29th, 2008 at 4:38 am
Explain me this:

Slightly behind the national rate of 66%, about 65% of the city’s population is obese or overweight

and:

it’s also America’s Most Obese City

How do those two go together?
DanO
Feb 29th, 2008 at 6:44 am
remember when forbes was a credible magazine?
MoonCake
Feb 29th, 2008 at 7:19 am
remember when people spent more time at their occupation than in front of their tv? that is so sad… GET A LIFE, PEOPLE!
sparge
Feb 29th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Dang… is it so hard to put these into a simple, readable list instead of making us mouse over some stupid map or click through a slide-show for each individual sin?
Systemdown
Feb 29th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Where is Vegas on that list?
JackD
Feb 29th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
I’m gonna have to pay more attn to where a link is taking me. Forbes won’t let you jump back out of there site. Hate that petty kind of control!
L
Feb 29th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
America’s Most Obese City?

I guess they’re eating too many Bacon Cups…
MadMolecule
Feb 29th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
That’s one reason I love living in Memphis. Here, I am smokin’ hot.

Actually, I live in a part of town mostly populated by young, fairly affluent, athletic people, but it’s definitely the exception.

There are a lot of reasons for that. For one thing, most of the city (but not my neighborhood) is so sprawled out that you can’t walk anywhere. For another, there are world-class barbecue joints all over the place. There’s also the weather: Our winters are usually too cold to do anything active outside, and our Missisippi Delta summers are WAY too hot and humid to do anything active outside.

And, probably most importantly, the local Southern culture is not about exercise and eating healthy.
farty
Mar 2nd, 2008 at 3:11 pm
I live in San Jose CA
Go San Jose!!!

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