Shreveport One Of Top Five Unhealthiest Cities In All America

You might want to put down your double cheeseburger and Coke and get off the couch and pay attention to this one.

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Shreveport, Louisiana was just named in the annual report from WalletHub, as the fifth unhealthiest city in all of America.

For this report, WalletHub ranked the 182 biggest cities in America from the healthiest to the least healthy, based on forty one factors including: Overall physical health, mental health, healthcare costs and quality, nutrition, including fruit and vegetable consumption, fitness levels and parks, trails, and bike paths.

According to their findings, the healthiest cities in the country included San Francisco, Honolulu, Seattle, San Diego, Washington, D.C., Portland, Oregon, Denver, Salt Lake City, Scottsdale, Arizona and Irvine, California.

On the flip-side of the coin, there's Shreveport, coming in at a startling fifth place unhealthy city in America. Not only is Shreveport the only Louisiana city in the Top 5, the next unhealthiest city is Baton Rouge which finished as the 20th unhealthiest city in America.

The only cities determined to be unhealthier than Shreveport were:

1. Brownsville, Texas
2. Gulfport, Mississippi
3. Laredo, Texas
4. Columbus, Georgia

What appears to put such a negative impact on Shreveport's health is the food we eat, which was ranked as the second unhealthiest in the country and the physical fitness of Shreveport which was determined to be the seventh worst in the country.

To see the full report from WalletHub just go HERE.