Columbus is No. 7. Once more, we can be thankful we don't live in Cleveland. But that's small comfort. Nutritional experts blame Cincinnati's ranking on a climate and geography that conspire to turn hard bodies into sofa spuds. Winters are cloudy and cold.
Summers are hot and muggy.
In the relatively flat, land-locked Midwest, there are no mountains to climb or ocean beaches to prowl. So, people stay indoors, watch TV and exercise their jaw muscles by eating. Straightening merchandise in the business his father opened 95 years ago, Phil unfolded and unfolded again a pair of jeans with an 80-inch waist. He held up the pants and stared at the backside. Ten years ago, he didn't sell jeans that large.