Firm Believers more likely Flabby---1998 Purdue Study Says

[Gottle_of_Geer]

AJV:

Wasn’t the Angelic Doctor, St. Thomas Aqinas, overweight?

So it appears - OTOH, St. Peter of Alcantara was not:​

firponet.com/Francesco/Servants/PietroAlc/Fran_serv_PietroAlc_eng.htm

He practiced asceticism from the age of 16 until His death, opposing a will of iron against the doubtlessly acute temptations of his body. He slept for no more than two hours each night, and even then He did not lie down, but slept either in a hard wooden chair or kneeling against the wall. His cell was no more than 4-½ feet long. He ate extremely little, at first going for three days, and then for a week without food. When He did eat, he destroyed the taste of the food by sprinkling it with ashes or earth. He never drank wine.
He never wore shoes, or even sandals, and went about barefoot. He never wore a hat or a hood, and exposed His head to the icy rains of winter or the scorching sun of summer. He wore a hair shirt, and though he possessed a cloak, He never wore it in cold weather. He went everywhere on foot, or at the most would ride on a donkey.

 

[Hegesippus]

AJV:

Wasn’t the Angelic Doctor, St. Thomas Aqinas, overweight?

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine. -St. Thomas Aquinas