La Ronge NorthernerMaybe the real secret to losing weight is moving to the tundra?Around Canada’s Hudson Bay region, far to the northeast, researchers discovered in the 1960s that everything weighed a little less,In an area of more than 500,000 square miles, you lose about 1/25,000 of your body weight. At the time, about 20,000 years ago, Canada and much of North America lay cold storehouses under the Laurentide Ice Sheet, an extended glacier about two miles thick in the areas near Hudson Bay. This causes the Earth’s continental plates to be pulled inward, causing a decrease in the mass and gravity of the Hudson Bay area