Philadelphia: worst city to be a man?

[Boyd]

Rated as #100 out of 100 cities in this article. Jersey City was #45 (only city in NJ to even make the list).

http://www.menshealth.com/health/best-worst-cities-men-0

METHODOLOGY:
Mortality rates for the top 5 causes of death for men, colon cancer screening rate, smoking rate, binge-drinking rate, fruit and vegetable consumption, number of poor mental health days, percentage of the population who live near a park (CDC); prostate cancer incidence (National Cancer Institute); male life expectancy, male obesity rate, percentage of men who report adequate or any physical activity (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation); participation in various sports (SimplyMap); urologists per 10,000 men (Urology Care Foundation); percentage of restaurants the serve fast food, percentage who have bachelor's degrees, mean travel time to work, ratio of single men to single women (U.S. Census Bureau); cost of living index (Council for Community and Economic Research); violent crime and property crime per 10,000 (FBI); two-year change in employment, unemployment rate (Bureau of Labor Statistics), five-year count of unhealthy air days (EPA), one-year percent change in house prices (Federal Housing Finance Agency)

 

[Spung-Man]

What, I have to give up my beloved scrapple?

 

[Old Crazy]

In all fairness to Philadelphia, I think these results have been skewed by the large numbers of Phillies fans who have been binge drinking and had bad mental health days during the last two seasons.

I can personally testify that I have a bad mental health day every time I think about the 25 million dollar a year strike-out king at first base.