“Everyone in the place, except the waiter, was fat, some of them so fat that I kept having to look at them. It’s possible to be overweight and still healthy, says Conners, as long as people eat well and get a reasonable amount of exercise. “The only thing that we are better at than the rest of the provinces is our perception of our own health,” he notes. Are Newfoundlanders doomed to remain chronically unhealthy? “Obviously people did forage back in the day, because berries were a huge thing in the diet,” says Pickavance.

Source: The Star May 16, 2022 11:27 UTC