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As hard as it may be to believe, the home of the West Virginia Hot Dog Festival and an event called Chilifest has been found to be the unhealthiest place in the United States.

Nearly half of the residents of Huntington, W.Va. are obese, and the city leads the nation in a variety of illnesses, including diabetes, heart disease and even tooth loss. These alarming figures (and those of the town's people) have led the Center for Disease Control to name Huntington the unhealthiest place in the country (Burlington, Vt. was named the healthiest). The CDC study looked at 150 metropolitan areas using stats from 2006 and ranked them in order of healthiness.

Part of the reason why there are so many obese people is related to the city's poverty level, which hovers around 19 percent. It's also being attributed to the fact that 31 percent of the people there say they don't exercise.

Furthermore, the AP notes that the "online Yellow Pages lists more pizza places (nearly 200) for the Huntington area than the entire state of West Virginia has gyms and health clubs (149)." We guess all of those places deliver, because if you want to be the fattest, you can't allow yourself to burn precious calories getting off the couch to carry out.