University of Alberta researchers have compiled an obesity map of Canada that shows the density of fast-food restaurants in different cities. Cities with higher numbers of such restaurants per capita had higher rates of obesity.
Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto were some of the cities with the lowest density of these restaurants, and those cities also had lower incidences of obesity. Cities in the Atlantic provinces like St. John’s had the highest rate, with more than 36 percent estimated to be obese. Read more on CNews.
