We’re Healthy, And We Drink a Lot of Coffee
New York City is the healthiest city in the U.S., according to data collected by Eatery from 7.68 million people in over 50 countries over five months. Massive Health analyzed the data that app users around the world provided, and created some cool graphics to explain the findings. Here are some of the more interesting bits relevant to our city:
• New Yorkers drink 6.7 times more coffee than other cities.
• We’re not the biggest bagel-eaters–that’s Philly, with 3.7 times the bagel consumption.
• We eat twice as much oatmeal as other cities.
• If we had more ramen joints, we might inch up on Tokyo, where they eat 27.8 times more of the noodles than anyplace else.
• Users who eat breakfast eat 12.3% healthier throughout the day.
• People eat worse on the weekends, like 1.5 times as many cupcakes worse.
• Sunday is the unhealthiest eating day of the week.
They say that the findings correlate with current scientific research, though I’m curious how true that is. In a city as big as ours, can you really get the average when you’re culling information from a segment of people who have a smartphone and are willing to keep track of their food intake with it?
In any case, it makes for some fun statistics. Does any of this sound true to you?
