Leaner, Thinner NYC?

During my NYC trip, I felt that the people there are thinner than the average Midwesterner. That shouldn't really surprise me because Wisconsin, where I live, has the highest number of obese people, per capita. Well, being the residents of America's Dairyland (but going purely by statistics, these days California produces more Cheese than WI) the onus is on Wisconsinites to consume the state's dairy products or so they seem to think. A cheesehead shall not resemble a puny-wimp they say. Rolly-Polly wimp? Sure. But puny one? No, can't have it.

Well, flippancy apart, I am not sure if the food habits are any different in NYC. Case in point - the cream-cheese smothered bagels that two restaurants sold me. Yes, I did remove 99% of the cream-cheese before eating the bagels. I think it has to do with a more active lifestyle. Hard to find parking spaces and long commutes via clogged highways translate to New Yorkers taking the subway or the metro. To catch these trains & buses, one ends up walking a lot everyday. So, all the uber-calorie food they consume are mostly spent and not stored in the adipose tissue. Wonder if the same can be said of Chicagoans and San-Franciscans!