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Telling the us what we already knew, a new report says that Manhattanites are thinner than average Americans: Just 34% of white Manhattan residents are overweight, versus 64% of all Americans. The incidence of obesity increases with the other boroughs, leading to hypotheses that white Manhattanites are walking more than their outer borough counterparts or that they are richer and more well-educated, but Gothamist knows why they are thinner - the skinny, Atkins/South Beach/Zone/anorexia dieting socialites and magazine editors are throwing the whole study off.
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A friend told me of police abuse of a homeless person this morning on the 1 at 168 st. Apparently,
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Hah. Gothamist is hilarious... and maybe possibly right.
Okay, so that covers WHITE New Yorkers. What about everybody else?
Could it be they are giving up food so they can pay the rent?
I believe the Times ran a very serious series of articles on the obesity issue in the past year or so. If I remember correctly, there were distinct correlations between race, income and weight in the City. "Family night" pricing at fast food chains like Burger King and the absence/cost of fresh produce in certain neighborhoods were all contributing factors. I think Cornell/New York Med has a clinic devoted to the problem.
Am I wrong in asking why "not obese" is equated with "thin"? Whatever happened to normal? Or has the inbetween just completely disappeared?
family night at burger king?!? sign me up!!!
I recall that the Times did a fairly in-depth article on national obesity a few years back, replete with nice looking charts and maps (I love those). In very broad terms, the incidence of obesity tended to correlate with poverty. I think Mississippi and South Dakota had the highest incidence, while Hawaii followed by Colorado were lowest. New England was generally low and the deep south was generally high. When thinking about Colorado and Hawaii, one can also imagine cultural factors coming into play, like the Hawaiian diet and outdoorsy orientation in Colorado.
I get so tired of seeing these "reports". Here are quotes from Crain's which I found, well, just sad: "To be fat is to look slightly stupid." No, but to say that makes YOU look slightly stupid.
"New Yorkers want to fit into the trendiest designer clothes, which tend to look best on skinny people."
Huh. I wear designer clothing, look great in it, yet am not a size 2. Astonishing.
Gigi Howard, a fashion publicist whose willowy 5-foot-91/2-inch frame slips into a size 6, readily admits to being weight-conscious. A hectic spring has kept her out of the gym, so she's taking a few days off to work out with her personal trainer. "I feel like I need to be thinner," she says.
I don't know what's more disturbing. The fact that at a size 6, thinks she needs to be thinner, or that she would take time off work solely to exersize.
Just to note, this is not a slam against Gothamist at all for the post. It's just awful that this is how some people view thinness. Like it's the end all be all of existance.
Just take a trip up to the Bronx. Suddenly all the places that manhattenites are used to eating or drinking in - bistros, cafes, osterias, wine bars - dissappear, to be replaced by one of two signs: "Restaurant" or "Pizzeria." Go to Boro Park in Brooklyn and eat an entire quarter of a big kosher cheesecake with cherries on top for 94 cents. Man-ites, however, eat more sushi.
And Americans are a fat nation. I live in Europe now, and expect for Belgium (beer and frites with mayo) you don't see many folks as tubby as us Yanks. Go out to Lima, Ohio and you'll see an argument in favor of Atkins every fourth person.
Wow!!! Lima, Ohio!
I find the list of lawsuits that Ty, Inc., the makers of Beanie Babies, have filed quite amazing. Can anyone tell me why they sued Bjork?
Did you know that Lima, Ohio, owns the trademark to the word "beanie"?
Oh poo.
http://www.cityhall.lima.oh.us/dcd/beanie.htm
Do they still make tanks in Lima?
NYC, perhaps being a fashion/media/pretty much everything capital, might foster some bad body-image issues, but with that, since it's a place where there's lot of information and knowledge and availability of better foods, that might contribute to slightly better eating habits as well. But there is a race and class correlation to body weight.