What's Good
- Texas has "snack tax" laws aimed at reducing obesity and improving nutrition.
- Texas is one of 28 states that participates in a CDC-sponsored program to reduce obesity and other chronic diseases.
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What Isn't
- Mayor Thomas C. Leppert participates in fewer fitness-related events than most mayors.
- Texas state law limits or prohibits obesity-related lawsuits against food manufacturers and restaurants.
- Temperatures in Dallas top 90 degrees 101 days a year, making outdoor exercise less comfortable.
- Air quality here is among the most unhealthful of any city in our survey, according to EPA air quality standards. Unhealthy air makes outdoor exercise dangerous.
- Dallas residents received a bottom score in fruit and vegetable consumption, with only 14 percent eating the recommended five or more servings per day.
- Dallas residents participate in sports much less than average - 16 percent less than average, in fact.
- Dallas lost points in our Motivation category for poor participation rates in running, biking and walking despite high air quality.
- Donuts are 106 percent more popular here than average, according to a comparison of places that sell the fat-fried, sugar-coated breakfast food. Dallas has the 9th highest number of donut shops per capita in our survey.
- Dallas residents are 27 percent less likely than average to perform calisthenics - the 4th lowest rate of any city in our survey.
- Just 1 percent of Dallas residents practice martial arts, the 4th lowest participation rate in our survey.
- Dallas residents are 33 percent less likely than average to shoot recreational hoops, the 3rd lowest participation rate of any city in our survey.
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