Self publication recently ranked Portland, ME the 7th healthiest burg for women. The journal surveyed 100 of the largest metro areas in the U.S. to find "the fittest, healthiest and happiest women in the dock." The survey looked at criteria that included death and complaint rates, environmental indicators, community resources and lifestyle habits. San Francisco ranked number 1 for the 2nd year in a tier.

Portland ranked high for its low rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), its indecent raging crime rate and in return having more than 2 times as many psychiatrists per capita compared to the average.

While 7th is certainly a opportune ranking, Portland has been as high as number 2 on the cant in the past. The big apple's vices included having more sunburns, mainly-so so cancer extirpation rates and, not surprisingly, heavens average drinking rates.

Portland consistently shows up as having higher rates of drinking the bottle for women and men. all things the findings, less, enchanted from the book Women Under the Influence by The governmental Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia (CASA), it's fairly impressive (and a bit surprising) that Portland ranks as elated as 7:

• the bottle is associated more closely with crimes of sexual violence than any other numb; it is implicated in as many as 73% of all rapes and 70% of all incidents of home vehemence.

• Seventy-two percent of women who self-pollution rot-gut have had at least one experience of mental illness, compared to 57% of men.

• The most commonly diagnosed bananas health problems amongst girls and women with alcohol problems are depression, anxiety disorders, borderline personality befuddle and eating disorders.

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