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From MSN.com here are the...

The 5 Fittest Cities in America
Washington, D.C.
Boston, Mass.
Minneapolis, Minn.
Seattle, Wash.
Portland, Ore.

My hometown being the third makes me very proud.

Also, from MSNBC...

"Exhibit A: Portland, Oregon, just displaced Copenhagen as the No. 2 most bike-friendly city in the world.
Exhibit B: In Davis, California, more people cycle to work than drive.
Exhibit C: A growing number of Minneapolis residents continue to commute by bike through the winter."

Another point of pride, my father is included in Exhibit C, biking to work in downtown Minneapolis even in the winter. The number and accessibility of the trails in Minneapolis astounds me.

This of course, must help Minneapolis's health rating. U.S.'s health problem sicken me at times (no pun intended).
When we actually thought about what we are putting into our bodies...grabbing handfuls of sugar and putting then into our mouth when we eat that cotton candy, and syphoning a pound of grease down our throat for the amount of McDonalds we eat in a week...it's extremely ridiculous.

Our bodies are finely tuned instruments of life and we constantly run them down with the horrible things we put in them and the stress we put on ourselves. It's hard to eat healthy, but we as Americans CAN do it. We are a wealthy country with many resources and are blessed to be able to get the quality food that we have available to us. Another cool fact is that eating healthy increases HAPPINESS physiologically in our minds.