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- Ann Arbor, Michigan Takes Top Honors as the #1 Healthiest City to Live and Retire In -
Jump to full article: PR Newswire, 2008-07-23
Author: SOURCE AARP
Intro: AARP The Magazine, the
definitive voice for 50+ Americans and the world's largest-circulation
magazine with more than 34 million readers, today announced the top ten
healthiest cities to live and retire in with Ann Arbor, MI, Honolulu, HI,
Madison, WI, Santa Fe, NM, and Fargo, ND taking the top five rankings.
Featured in the September/October issue, the magazine also named five
additional cities that received high marks for vitality and great living
conditions including Boulder, CO, Charlottesville, VA, San Francisco Bay
Area, Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN, and Naples-Marco Island, FL. . . .
6. Boulder, Colorado: This home to more than 130 miles and 45,000 acres
of open space and pristine wilderness at the foothills of the Rocky
Mountains attracts environment and health-conscious residents; it is one of
the nation's healthiest cities with extremely low rates of smoking and
obesity . . .
9. San Francisco Bay Area, California: Residents are among the least
likely to be overweight and smoke . . .
10. Naples-Marco Island, Florida: Residents received very high scores
for regular exercise, healthy eating and not smoking; the area has one of
the lowest cancer mortality rates in the country . . .
AARP The Magazine's special report examines which cities excelled in
key areas of longevity, vitality, and wellness. Ames, IA was the city with
the longest life expectancy, 81.02 years, followed by Naples-Marco Island,
FL with 80.97 years. Ames, IA, also topped the list of cities with the
highest percentage of people able to afford healthcare, at 97.9% and
Johnston, PA, was second on that list at 96.2%. In a key measure of health,
average body mass index (BMI), Boulder, CO topped the list as the skinniest
city, with a 24.94 BMI, followed by Santa Fe, NM, which had an average BMI
of 25.50. Of cities with the greenest commuters, Ithaca, NY, was highest on
the list with 16.88% of commuters biking or walking to work.
Full criteria included: Cardiac mortality rates (age-adjusted),
prescriptions for control of hypertension, cholesterol (per capita),
physician diagnoses of diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, obesity
(BMI), smoking cigarettes
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