Are Guyanese healthier than Jamaicans?

Everytime I ask one of my colleagues what they've brought to lunch for work they give me the name of some vegetable. It's interesting. Guyanese eat... Bora for lunch. http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/images/2009/01/bora-copy.jpg

But, what is the best part, is that they're not eating bora by itself. They're eating it with meat. Bora and chicken, or bora and mince or something like that. Now in Jamaica, we'd probably say we were eating chicken with bora, or mince with bora. Wouldn't you think the same?

But, other than that, I find them talking often about how they're tired of rice. Tired of bread. (That shouldn't be too bad a thing, right?) Maybe if I was tired of bread I could lose some weight... :) In addition, they eat curried pumpkin, curried mango, boulanger (egg plant), etc as regular meals. Sometimes I see people eating just rice with black eyed peas or something like that, and callaloo is a common dish for many.

With all these vegetables featuring prominently in the lives of the Guyanese, are they all healthy? Are they healthier than the Jamaicans like myself who aren't eating as many vegetables? Don't get me wrong, Jamaicans eat vegetables with their meals - just mostly as a side dish. And, yes we do have vegetarians in Jamaica, but these Guyanese I'm referring to are not vegetarian. So, this should make for a pretty healthy lifestyle, right? Is this something I should be adopting???? Boulanger... here I come!