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...