Will Living In A "Healthy City" Somehow Make You Healthy?
According to the latest scientific proof in the form of a magazine list feature, San Francisco is the nation's healthiest city. Women's Health surveyed a hundred American cities and ranked them according to life expectancy, obesity, access to health care, incidence of cancer, nutrition, and probably how much money everybody has. How did a wealthy and beautiful city with its own universal health care plan and a population of attractive people who walk everywhere end up at the top of the list? (SELF magazine put out a similar list last month, with San Jose at No. 1 and San Francisco in third place.)
Also, why did Men's Health put out nearly the same list, but with San Francisco in second place to Boise? More importantly, why is New York nowhere to be found in the Top Ten? Because of winter, probably? Those four or five months when people spend most days inside under blankets with a box of donuts and a case of "winter ale," that might be taking a toll.
At the very tragic bottom of the list, there's the usual Deep South town—in this year's list, it's Birmingham, Alabama, but it could just as easily be Jackson, Mississippi, which is at 94th place on this list. And the grim poverty and crushed hope of rust belt cities like Detroit (#90), Toledo (#98) and Cleveland (#96) is definitely not making people any healthier, it turns out! The good news is that we will all eventually die, except for Ray Kurzweil, who moved to the Bay Area just to rub it in.
Photo by Eric Molina.
"More importantly, why is New York nowhere to be found in the Top Ten?"
You've obviously never been to the Bronx.
@Lockheed Ventura Or Queens or Staten Island or large swaths of Brooklyn.
"D.C. has higher-than-average numbers of alcoholic drinks consumed each month and those who binge drink." Yeah but do they take into account the risk of being run over by joggers while trying to smoke outside a bar? CLEARLY NOT.
Maybe we should take NYC's SashimiGate more seriously.
Except here's the thing: San Francisco, for an ostensible cultural capital with huge amounts of discretionary income, has no art, no literature, and no music. You have lots of time to rock climb when you realize no succession of upscale Valenica St. eateries can fill the emptiness, it just roils within you like the diesel engine of a soundproofed commuter coach.
I am glad for San Francisco. For those interested the nighthawk radiology can help you to discover your body shape. The private sector in the medical field where the public hospitals are backed by private hospitals and clinics that help maintain a high standard in treatment of diseases.
I agree with Norman. Since I discovered at the radiology as my lungs are "heavy" I started using white cloud. I think it is the best choice.