San Antonio Ranked Among America's Fattest Cities In 2019

San Antonio has been ranked as on of the fattest cities in the U.S. by personal finance website WalletHub. The organization compared 100 of the most populated U.S. metro areas across 19 metrics, including the share of obese adults to share of overweight children and projected obesity rates by 2030, WalletHub said in a news release.

"In fact, almost 40 percent of the U.S. population aged 15 and older is obese," WalletHub said in its report. "But such a finding should come as no surprise, considering the huge availability of fast-food and increasingly cheaper grocery items that have negatively altered our diets. Unfortunately, the extra pounds have inflated the costs of obesity-related medical treatment to between $147 billion and $210 billion a year and annual productivity losses due to work absenteeism to around $4.3 billion."

San Antonio was ranked 19, followed by Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and preceded by Nashville, Tennessee.

The report used information sourced from the U.S. Census Bureau, United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service, Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative, and the Trust for America's Health, among other places.

Other key findings from WalletHub:

• The McAllen, Texas, metro area has the highest share of physically inactive adults, 36.90 percent, which is 2.3 times higher than in Raleigh, North Carolina, the metro area with the lowest at 16.00 percent.
• The El Paso, Texas, metro area has the highest share of diabetic adults, 14.60 percent, which is 2.3 times higher than in San Francisco and Minneapolis, the metro areas with the lowest at 6.30 percent.
• The Mobile, Alabama, metro area has the highest share of adults with high blood pressure, 41.20 percent, which is 1.9 times higher than in San Jose, California, the metro area with the lowest at 21.40 percent