Doctors Rank Healthiest Airports
It may not assume possible, but one doctor's accumulation says you can in fact get a advantageous airport meal -- you just accept to apperceive area to look (or land). Your best bet is in San Francisco.
For the additional year in a row, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine ranked the top 10 busiest U.S. airports according to how simple it is to get a advantageous meal. PCRM is a doctors accumulation that advocates preventative medicine, abnormally acceptable diet including a vegetarian diet, and promotes alternatives to analysis on animals.
Although there hasn't been abundant advance all-embracing back endure year, some airports accept absolutely taken big strides appear alms healthier options.
The accumulation alone included full-fledged airport restaurants -- those that offered breakfast, lunch, and dinner. They bent the allotment of restaurants in anniversary airport that offered advantageous choices. A restaurant was deemed "healthy" if it offered at atomic one low-fat, high-fiber,cholesterol-free entrée.
Healthy Airport Food
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Airport
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Score
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1. San Francisco
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96%
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2. Denver
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79%
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3. Los Angeles
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54%
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4. Dallas
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53%
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5. Houston
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50%
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6. Atlanta
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49%
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7. Phoenix
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48%
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8. Las Vegas
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45%
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9. Minneapolis
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44%
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10. Chicago
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42%
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For the additional year in a row, San Francisco International Airport came out on top -- with 96% of restaurants accounted healthy. Chicago, one of the nation's two busiest airports -- forth with Atlanta -- fared abundant worse.
Compared to endure year, three airports bigger their array -- Denver, Dallas-Forth Worth, and Atlanta. But four now action beneath advantageous choices -- Los Angeles, Phoenix, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and Chicago. The added airports remained the same.