A closer look at the data reveals that Pittsburgh men are particularly overweight. We have a lower percent of men who are in the normal BMI range, and more in the combined overweight and obese categories, than any of the other 14 regions that are part of the Pittsburgh Indicators comparison group. Pittsburgh women are near the average in the rankings for the proportion with healthy BMIs.It's worth considering. I don't know if it feels like men are the overweight ones when I'm out on the Southside, but apparently we (the men of Pittsburgh) are over eating. What do we think is responsible for this? Ethnic food? Poor exercise weather? The new design of the trays for the hot dog guys at PNC Park?
Monday, May 4, 2009
Pittsburgh Men Fatter Than The Women
According to Pittsburgh Today:
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4 comments:
would you rather be a ferrari or a rolls royce?
one's built for speed. the other, for comfort.
i'd choose comfort over speed any day! ; )
p.s. i think it's in the beer around here
but i'm a lady(and i don't drink beer) so i'm not sure.
any guys have an idea why??
I think beer is definitely part of it. More specifically the "drinking town" mentality. That was fine when we worked an 8 hour day at the mill. Staring at the computer at a bank hasn't caused quite the same level of beer compensating calorie consumption.
I eat to forget. I don't remember what, specifically, but I'm hesitant to tamper with an approach that's obviously working.
Well dang, maybe if our moms would stopping making those all those pierogis, we'd stand a fighting chance.
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