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Is Burlington Vermont America’s healthiest city?

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Burlington City MarathonIt depends on whom you ask. Of course Burlington is beautiful, some consider it the most beautiful city on Lake Champlain. But if you ask the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Burlington is the nation’s healthiest city.

The Burlington City Marathon is huge, of course. And if you walk down any street in downtown Burlington, you’ll pass a yoga studio or a health club. Take a look:

All American Fitness
Bikram Yoga
Bow Down Yoga
Burlington Yoga
Curves
Espire
Evolution Yoga
Fitness Options
Jazzercise of Burlington
Olympiad
On Track
Planet Fitness
Raquet’s Edge
Sports & Fitness Edge
Twin Oaks
YMCA
Yoga Vermont

Imagine that each studio employs 30 fitness professionals. That’s 510 people. Add in the colleges, sports clubs, personal trainers, and ski instructors and this number ski rockets to more than two thousand people. That’s nearly ½ % of the city’s population! Burlington Vermont is the Nation\'s healthiest city

This list doesn’t even take the marital arts, Pilates, or physical therapy into consideration. Whatever your body needs, you’ll find it here in Burlington. And you’ll find any type of class that suits your needs. Take yoga for example: there’s prenatal yoga, post-natal yoga, yoga for toddlers, yoga on the lake, yoga for kayakers, yoga for seniors, skiers, bikers, golfers, runners…You get the picture.

These Burlington homes are all within walking distance of a yoga studio or health club:
MLS # 2811788 – 673 Prospect Street
MLS #2903426 – 94 Church Street
MLS #2901442 – 40 College Street
MLS #2902570 – 161 St. Paul Street

Here are many more Burlington homes fit for the fit…