Why Are Shreveport and Bossier Among Most Overweight U.S. Cities?

Everyone in Shreveport and Bossier City is probably looking at themselves in the mirror and checking the scales after this study dropped.

The combined Shreveport-Bossier metro area was included in a study of the most overweight cities in America. Sorry, Bossier City, but you're part of Shreveport for this study.

Shreveport Among Cities Most At Health Risk Due to Obesity

In a study of the most obese cities in America, Shreveport was ranked as the third worst city for health consequences due to obesity, things like high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease.

Shreveport had more adults with high blood pressure than any other city in America, second most adults with high cholesterol, and fourth for the number of obese adults in the city.

Shreveport Is The 3rd Most Overweight City in America

Overall Shreveport is the third most overweight city in America, not literally though. The study ranks cities on 3 categories for the overall ranking.
The three categories are:
Obesity & Overweight
Health Consequences
Food & Fitness

Shreveport was ranked twelfth worst for the obesity and overweight rank, made up by the number of adults, teenagers, and children who are obese or overweight. Fourteenth worst in food and fitness went to Shreveport, a score of adults who self-reported healthy living and things like the number of local gyms and parks.

Overall Shreveport came in as what WalletHub calls the 3rd "Fattest" city in America, due to a high number of people dealing with the consequences of an obese or overweight lifestyle.