article_snippet: The number of pizza take outs compared with gym memberships may give you some idea of a city's obesity rates.
article_snippet: According to the researchers, a microbial study of that sewage helped the researchers predict each city's obesity rates with 81 to 89 per cent accuracy.
article_snippet: The skinniest city sampled was Steamboat Springs, Colorado, with an obesity rate of 13.5 per cent, while the heaviest was St. Joseph, Missouri, with a rate of 37.4 per cent.
article_snippet: However, only using sewage samples, us were able to differentiate those cities' based on those cities' estimated level of obesity. '
highlights_snippet: Heaviest city was St Joseph, Missouri, with an obesity rate of 37.4% .
  