I live in Iowa and it's ridiculous here. We're in MPLS pretty often and it does seem better there by far. All my trips to the Mayo Clinic have been pretty good, too. Well, other than patients of course. I wonder, too, what an obese cardiologist would advise you. I keep in the middle of a healthy BMI under the advice of my thin geneticist because she sees the worst joint-related EDS problems crop up in the underweight and overweight patients the most. It's nice to have doctors who aren't made stupid by their excess adipose.