Exclusive Data Analysis Maps Healthiest and Least Healthy Cities with Rankings
for Best Breasts, Best/Worst Eaters, Smokiest/Least Smoky, Best/Worst
Healthcare and Other Lifestyle Categories
NEW YORK, Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Does your town help or hinder your
ability to live your healthiest, happiest life? SELF Magazine's 6th Annual
America's Healthiest Places for Women, featured in the December issue, is
based on an exclusive analysis of 6,000 bits of data in 49 categories to
reveal which of the 100 biggest metro areas offers residents the healthiest
lifestyle.
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This year's top five healthiest cities:
Nassau-Suffolk counties, NY
San Jose, CA
Orange County, CA
Burlington, VT
San Francisco, CA
This year's five least healthy cities:
Cincinnati, OH
Tulsa, OK
Oklahoma City, OK
Dayton-Springfield, OH
Memphis, TN
"We're providing a snapshot and overall picture of the country and our
readers really respond to the America's Healthiest Places rankings each year,"
said Sara Austin, SELF news director. "We recognize every community has its
own challenges and they're also the best judge of how to change and improve
the health of their region. We hope to provide some incentive and tips to
help our readers play their part in making themselves and their hometowns the
healthiest they can be."
Other rankings featured in SELF Magazine's 6th Annual America's Healthiest
Places, include:
* Best Breasts (most mammograms and clinical breast exams):
Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY
* Best Skin (fewest sunburns): Nashville, TN
* Unsavviest Sex: Sioux Falls, SD
* Least Safe: Detroit, MI
* Vainest: West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, FL
* Fittest: Seattle, WA
* Best Eaters: Ventura, CA
* Worst Eaters: Huntington, WV/Ashland, KY
* Best Environment: Tucson, AZ
* Worst Environment: Philadelphia, PA
* Healthiest Hearts: Anchorage, AK
* Unhealthiest Hearts: Sarasota-Bradenton, FL
* Least Smoky: Orange County, CA
* Smokiest: Las Vegas, NV
* Least Stressed: Nassau-Suffolk counties, NY
* Most Stressed: Las Vegas, NV
To determine the rankings, SELF uses nationwide research, including
body-mass index, heart disease and smoking rates from the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, environmental statistics from the Environmental
Protection Agency and crime figures from the FBI.
The "6th Annual America's Healthiest Places" appears in the December issue
of SELF, on newsstands through December 26. Visit Self.com for ways to live
healthy anywhere.
SOURCE SELF Magazine
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CONTACT:
Lauren Theodore of SELF Magazine,
+1-212-286-8157, lauren_theodore@self.com; or Sara Skirboll /
Mike Rosen, +1-212-679-2233, sskirboll@bratskeir.com,
mrosen@bratskeir.com, both of Bratskeir & Company, both for SELF
Magazine
NOTE TO EDITORS: Sara Austin, SELF news director, is available
for interviews to discuss the "6th Annual America's Healthiest
Places" rankings. Full copies of the story are available to
members of the media in .PDF format via e-mail by contacting
Bratskeir & Co. at 212-679-2233 or at sskirboll@bratskeir.com.
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