Top 15 fittest cities in America

This is so odd.

SLC has some of the worst air pollution and is among the most stressed cities in the nation, yet apparently we're very fit.

Just goes to show you can't always trust statistics.

SLC is great. Don't project your problems on the city. Enjoy the positive attention once.

Delta- Actually, our quality of air is very good most of the year.....

Re Delta Foxtrot -

We agree that statistics and their interpretion don't always agree. I wouldn't want to live in any big city, but I have been forced to live on serveral of the list. By my personal preference Salt Lake would have ranked higher and others lower. Some would be dropped off my list completely,

Denver certainly ranks higher than Minneapolis for me etc. For me a number of smaller towns out away from the big cities would be at the top of my list. Detroit & Washington DC might be down towards the bottom of the list!

Then again, most communities are what their citizens make them and we should each provide some service to make our community a better place to live. WOW what a concept, if each of us would spend 2 Saturday morning a month as a volunteer helping make OUR community better.

Minneapolis has fewer swimming pools? That's probably because it only has about a month of summer. The rest of the year is freezing cold. Great city though. Just very, very cold in the winter.

#4 - Portland, Oregon "Portland residents have a lower percent of households which fall below the poverty level." They also have a lower percentage of households with children or married adults. Most co-habitate. They also have converted many of the lanes of the streets in Portland to include bike lanes, even taking over those lanes for mass transit.

Outside of Portland city limits, there are wonderful hiking and biking trails, all within an hour's time of city center. The outlying cities have great park and recreation departments, so much so that nearly 1/3 of the property taxes are for park and rec fees.

Those are just some of the reasons why Portland ranked so high.

Portland may be Beautiful and Green, but who can take 10 months of continual rain? There are months at a time where you dont see the sun.
People are large and pale in Portland.. Cant see how its seen as a place of healthy people. Im one that belives you need sun to be and feel healthy.

Minneapolis? Yuck, you will freeze there too.

Im really surprised San Diego isn't rated higher.

What a complete joke, No mention of the "lead poisoning" problem in DC or pollution is most of the rated cities. If you have parks, and dog walks, your city is high on the list. If you have a younger population, its even higher.

Ever driven in Washington DC or Boston? Most healthy?! Someone forgot to include the stress of commuting.

Salt Lake City was the only Conservative/Republican city to barely crack the top 15 with #15.

As bad as some what to believe it, we're not #1 in a lot of good things -- and are #1 in quite a number of bad ones.