Mystique Films

My Big Fat Diet

The show rebroadcasted on March 15th at 7:00 pm and 10 pm.

Supersize Me meets Northern Exposure in this one-hour documentary that chronicles how the Namgis First Nation of Alert Bay gives up sugar and junk food, returning to a traditional style of eating for a year to deal with an escalating problem of obesity and diabetes.

The diet is championed by Metis Doctor, Jay Wortman, who believes passionately that the change from a traditional diet -- seafood and edible plants -- to Westernized foods that are heavy in carbohydrates is the cause behind the epidemic facing indigenous people everywhere. “Obesity, diabetes and heart disease were unknown in these populations until very recently,” he says. “No aboriginal language has a word for diabetes.”

My Big Fat Diet premiered on Tuesday March 11, 2008 at 10:00pm Eastern Time and 7:00pm & 10:00pm Pacific Time, on CBC Newsworld’s The Lens.

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Mystique Films is an independent production company fueled by the energy of award-winning filmmakers and partners Christian Bruyère and Mary Bissell. The style of our productions range from adrenalized to heartwarming – created by a versatile and talented team with decades of film and television experience.

We produce edgy and entertaining documentary and dramatic programming. Our first feature for television, Scorn, won the 2001 Gemini award (Canada's Emmy) for Best Television Movie.

My Big Fat Diet, like Super Size Me, looks at the problem of obesity, through the eyes of a man who straddles two cultures, Western and First Nations. It also looks at the history and present-day status of traditional food gathering, and the link between individual health and that of the immediate environment. My Big Fat Diet premiered on Tuesday March 11, 2008 at 10:00pm Eastern Time and 7:00pm & 10:00pm Pacific Time, on CBC Newsworld’s The Lens. The show is going to be rebroadcast on March 15th at 7:00 pm and 10 pm.

Beyond Invention, a fun, fast-paced series that explores the way-out world of invention, is now airing on Discovery Channel Canada.

Healing with Animals, our inspirational documentary series that explores the amazing benefits of the human-animal bond, picked up three Leos and a bronze plaque at the Columbus International Film Festival. Also produced by Bruyère is the well-loved, award-winning nature series Champions of the Wild, televised in over 20 countries around the world.

Honored with awards from film festivals all over North America, our shows can be seen on prominent networks in over 30 countries, such as Discovery International, Discovery US (The Learning Channel & Animal Planet), PBS, Channel 5 UK and in Canada on CBC, CTV, Global and Discovery.