Being fit is about more than lifting weights and cardio. After all, it’s often said that abs are made in the kitchen. But experts report you don’t have to ditch your favorite foods to qualify as fit. Incorporating some fruits and veggies daily, getting enough sleep, and walking to work can be enough. Another potential factor? Where you live! That’s why we mapped the healthiest cities in America and looked for location trends. We’ve also included the habits experts recommend along with each city to explore in the map below.

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We pulled the map’s data about the health behaviors of the U.S.’s 100 largest cities from American College of Sports Medicine’s Fitness Index. They identified a population’s tendency towards things like exercising in the last 30 days and consuming 2+ fruits per day and totaled them up to create an overall fit score for each city. So, in the story of the most health-conscious cities, we’ll cover the top 10 overall fittest, regional fitness, along with the top in each fitness category.

Top 10 Overall Fittest Cities in America

Of the 100 most fit cities on the map, 10 are closest to a perfect score of 100 overall when it comes to being fit among a variety of categories. Interestingly enough, two of the 10 are located in the same Midwestern state, though neither ranks #1. Let’s cycle through these top ten.

All About Arlington

1. Arlington, VA – 86.1
2. Minneapolis, MN – 80.6
3. Seattle, WA – 77.6
4. Denver, CO – 75.8
5. Madison, WI – 75
6. Washington D.C. – 73.8
7. St. Paul, MN – 70.4
8. Irvine, CA, – 70.3
9. Portland, OR – 69.2
10. Atlanta, GA – 69

It’s official: Arlington, Virginia is the fittest city in America. They can’t all be in the FBI, with its stringent physical requirements. With an overall score that’s 5.5 points higher than even the second-fittest, the 236,842 residents of Arlington certainly are healthy. Special acknowledgment to the specific categories the city excels at, including high scores in % exercising in the last 30 days, making it one of the ​​most active cities in the U.S.—government work must require stress relief. Arlington’s population has a high % in excellent or very good health and the lowest scores in:

• % smoking
• % physical health not good during the past 30 days
• % with high blood pressure
• % with angina or coronary heart disease
• % with diabetes
• % with food insecurity

All that said, let’s move on to the rest of the top 10.

Fit Minnesota & PNW Cities

Both Minneapolis and nearby St. Paul, Minnesota, score high among the most health-conscious cities, along with the Pacific Northwest’s neighboring cities of Seattle and Portland.

Not one of these four cities tops the charts for an individual health behavior, though Minneapolis outranks all other cities in Bike Score (not included on this map, but noted in The 484 Best & Worst Cities for Cycling). St. Paul also has the most baseball diamonds per 10,000 residents. Go Twins?

Additionally, Oakland, California narrowly missed the cutoff at #11 with an overall score of 67.4. However, Irvine did make the list and the city also tops the charts in aerobic and strength activity guidelines, as well as pedestrian fatality rate.

With an idea of the top overall healthiest cities in America, let’s show other cities some attention.

Other Cities Meeting Their Fitness Goals

Obviously, not every city can make it to the top 10 overall fittest. But of the rest of the 90 healthiest cities in America, several surpassed all the others in select categories. Their exemplary efforts deserve to be noted—at least for the nine health behavior subcategories that are included on the map.

Health Behavior	Top Scoring City	Score
% exercising in the last 30 days	Arlington, VA	85.7
% meeting aerobic activity guidelines	St. Petersburg, FL	65.4
% meeting aerobic & strength activity guidelines	Anaheim, Irvine, & Santa Ana, CA	31
% bicycling or walking to work	Boston, MA	19.3
% using public transportation to work	New York, NY	55.6
% consuming 2+ fruits/ day	Newark, NJ	41.7
% consuming 3+ vegetables/ day	San Antonio, TX	20.9
% sleeping 7+ hours/ day	Lubbock, TX	77.8
% smoking	Arlington, VA	3.5

While we previously noted Arlington’s achievements in health, ​​St. Petersburg, Florida, is a new city to highlight, as you can see on the table above. Also worth mentioning: St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota follow St. Petersburg with a high percentage of their populations meeting aerobic activity guidelines, with scores of 59 and 58.9, respectively.

And then there are the three Golden State cities that are the best in the country at meeting aerobic & strength activity guidelines: Anaheim, Irvine, and Santa Ana, along with two Texan places outranking all others in two different categories: San Antonio via vegetable consumption and Lubbock with sleep.

Meanwhile, Boston is home to the highest percentage of people biking or walking to work—it must be one of the Most Walkable Cities in the US, Canada, and Australia.

On the other hand, the Big Apple has the most residents taking public transportation to work. Read more about the 370 Cities & Their Commute Times and Transportation Rates here.

As a company dedicated to making interactive maps from spreadsheets, we talk a lot about Excel. First released in the 1980s, it was one of the first popular spreadsheet tools on the market. It also now seems to be the industry standard.

But when Google Sheets came to town in 2006, it rose in popularity, so much so that you now have converts to the program who swear they’ll never open Excel again. Where do we fall on the topic? We’re fans of anything that will hold our location data. But, since we already looked at Excel tips from the guy who built it, let’s go over three reasons Google’s option is supreme when we compare Google Sheets vs Excel.

1. Collaborate In Real-Time with Google Sheets

Let’s start off with what is perhaps the top reason that, when it comes to Microsoft Excel vs Google Sheets, Sheets reigns supreme: collaboration. Be it co-workers teaming up on a project or a chore chart between spouses, Google Sheets has always made it easy (and free!) for multiple users to edit a sheet at the same time.

On the other hand, Excel’s desktop version just recently began offering real-time collaboration to its paying customers, though each spreadsheet must be stored in OneDrive or SharePoint in Microsoft 365. Previously, users had to manually save, download, and email each updated version back and forth to one another, which continues to be the case for files not stored in Microsoft’s preferred manner. As for Excel’s less well-known cloud version, it may be comparable to Google Sheets’ collaboration capabilities.

In Sheets, simply share any spreadsheet stored anywhere with your desired collaborators to work on it together, seeing each other’s changes right as you make them. Not to mention you can live chat with users currently working on the spreadsheet with you, making communication much more efficient than a string of emails. And to keep track of who has edited what, Google Sheets once again has the only clean solution.

2. Sheet’s Version History Further Encourages Collaboration

Google Sheets also aids collaboration with their built-in Version history.

While Excel has a similar option to view previous versions of a file, according to Microsoft, version history only works for files stored in OneDrive or SharePoint in Microsoft 365.

But with Google Sheets, you don’t have to do anything to ensure your Version history is generated—it’s automatic. This allows you and your collaborators to track your progress without any setup. Get started with Sheets’ Version history via the keyboard shortcut Command + Option + Shift + H or by navigating to File, Version history, See version history—or even name the current version.

But this isn’t even the last benefit of Google Sheets vs Excel. Let’s move on to reason #3.

3. Access from All Your Devices

Yet another reason Google Sheets comes out on top is how easy it is to access your data at any time on any device, which, in a way, is collaborating with yourself. In Excel, you can only access spreadsheets that are on your computer. Whereas Google Sheets allows you to access your spreadsheets on multiple devices (even at the same time).

Whether it’s your phone, iPad, library computer, or boss’s laptop, this is the benefit of a 100% browser-based spreadsheet tool. Simply log in to your Google account on your desired device to have every sheet you’ve ever created in Sheets available wherever you are.

And when you’re done? Log out to prevent anyone else from accessing your information. Or, if it’s your device, you can remain logged in for easy access in the future.

With an idea of how collaborating is better in Google Sheets vs Excel, we can move on to another way of sharing our work.

Continue the Collab with Shared Maps

In the question of which is better, Google Sheets vs Excel, the evidence seems to show collaboration is best in Google Sheets. But don’t let that stop with your spreadsheets. In the same spirit, continue collaborating when you map your location data with BatchGeo.

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Share your interactive creation with friends and fans on social media or, you can also share your map with an even wider audience by copying and pasting to embed it into your website.

January 2022 marks the third year the world has to deal with the no-longer-novel coronavirus. While we’re on the topic of anniversaries, 100 years ago, many historical events took place. So what happened in 1922 that you should care about? The major events in 1922 can be divided into 10 categories, including education, disaster, food and health, and wars. Beyond the aftermath of World War I, other skirmishes were fought throughout the year. So let’s take a look at the 129 most important 1922 events from 100 years ago on the map below.

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Wikipedia’s data is the source of information for these 1922 events. Group the map by categories like media, strikes and revolutions, and sports. Or, for a more in-depth look at the trends within these 10 categories, keep reading.

Major Events in 1922 by Category

We broke them down into 11 categories with events adding up to 129 for easier digestion (yes, food is a category!)

• Politics (46)
• War (33)
• Media (20)
• Disaster (6)
• Education (6)
• Strikes & revolutions (5)
• Sports (5)
• Food & health (3)
• Animals (3)
• Culture (3)
• Transport (2)

Some examples include the several educational opportunities that arose in 1922. New schools opened along with a Black sorority’s first chapter (Alpha Kappa Alpha’s Lambda Chapter) in New York. Additionally, an English archaeologist unearthed the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt. He and his team were the first inside in 3,000+ years.

Disaster also struck in 1922, be it natural or otherwise. This included the first mid-air collision of two planes over Poix-de-Picardie in France. A British airplane carrying mail hit a French plane containing three passengers. Seven people died in total. For more on the history of place collisions, see 550+ Major Plane Crashes.

Moreover, the Swatow typhoon disastrously hit Shantou, China in 1922. The result was 5,000+ people dead. Find out if it was one of the Most Disastrous Natural Disasters in our post on the topic.

Food & Health

As for food, just two related events grace the map, along with a single notable health discovery. First up, 1922 was the year an Australian invented Vegemite. Spread on sandwiches, toast, crumpets, and cracker biscuits, it’s a staple for many in the Land Down Under.

Additionally, the Eskimo Pie ice cream bar was created in the U.S. this year. However, it would later be renamed as a result of the Reported Name Changes Due to George Floyd Protests. On June 19, 2020, makers agreed “Eskimo” can be racist towards Arctic indigenous peoples (like the Inuit and Yupik). It will rebrand, along with several other frozen treats and sports teams that contain the same name.

And in a win for those with diabetes, a Toronto-based scientist created the first successful insulin treatment. Too bad a treatment for disagreements between countries wasn’t also discovered.

War-Related 1922 Events

We could hardly mention the 1922 events related to war without including the five cases involving post-World War I German hyperinflation.

While the Great War ended in 1918, rapid price increases made it so that it took 563 German marks to buy one U.S. dollar in the middle of 1922. That continued to rise throughout the rest of the year to 1,000, and then 3,000 marks. Ultimately, the year ended with 7,000 marks needed to buy $1.

As a result of the hyperinflation (along with other unfortunate events, like the assassinations also noted on the map), the Weimar Republic asked for a three-year break on payments.

Other events related to a post-war world took place in Genoa, Italy, where representatives for 34 countries met to discuss finances in the wake of the war.

But more than post-WWI, smaller, yet still impactful wars were also fought, including the Greco-Turkish War, Irish Civil War, and Russian Civil War. You can discover more specifics about these incidents on the map when you group by war and navigate to the respective areas. But that’s not all there is left to learn.

Learn More About Past Years

The major events in 1922, such as the invention of Vegemite and Germany’s struggles to pay off war debts can still affect the world to this day—in good ways and bad. Now that you’re an expert about what happened in 1922, be sure to check out our previous posts highlighting the events of 100 years prior: 100 years since 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, and 1921.