City leaders across the country face tight budgets, decreasing revenues, and unemployment challenges. And, as Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index data reveal, they also face another looming problem: high obesity rates that are accompanied with astronomical healthcare costs. Obesity's healthcare costs aren't distributed equally across the nation, and definitely not across U.S. cities. According to its 2009 studies of 187 U.S. metro areas, Gallup estimates that the direct costs associated with obesity and related chronic conditions are about $50 million per 100,000 residents annually in cities with the highest rates of obesity. The direct and additional hidden costs of obesity are stifling businesses and organizations that stimulate jobs and growth in U.S. cities. Losing weight, gaining savings Obesity's healthcare costs are not distributed equally across the nation, and definitely not across U.S. cities. The majority of cities Gallup studied need to cut their obesity rates by at least a quarter...

The next step is you will want to create the template for the user registration form itself. In your theme directory, create a file called user-register.tpl.php. Notice how the name exactly corresponds to the name we used in the code for template.php. If your form is not displaying properly, there is a good chance it is because there is a mispelling in one of these places. The following example shows you how to create some basic template code that will display the username and password fields, along with the submit button. Within user-register.tpl.php, paste the following code: