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Edinburgh Live
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Jacob Farr & Lee Dalgetty

Edinburgh named most unfit city in Scotland and UK according to new study

Edinburgh has been named the most unfit city in Scotland and the UK in a new league table, being beaten by Perth, Stirling, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee.

Surprisingly, the majority of Scotland’s cities finished at the bottom of the table, with only Perth in 16 and Stirling in 21 performing reasonably well.

Edinburgh came rock bottom in 58 with Glasgow in 52, Inverness in 53, Aberdeen in 55 and Dundee in 56 finishing close by.

READ MORE: The real reason some Edinburgh New Town tenements have their windows boarded up

Four determining factors were considered by DNA Lean, who conducted the research, and these were the percentage of active adults, how many people walk or cycle five times per week, plus the number of gyms as well as leisure centres per 100,000 people.

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