Supersize Me meets Northern Exposure in My Big Fat Diet when the Namgis First Nation of Alert Bay gives up sugar and junk food, returning to a traditional style of eating for a year to fight obesity and diabetes.

My Big Fat Diet is going to be shown again on CBC Newsworld’s “The Lens” on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 10pm ET/PT on CBC Newsworld

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What happens when you convince a small, remote town to modify their diet to restrict carbohydrate?

You get a study called "My Big Fat Diet," where everyone participating agrees to shun the carbohydrate and dig in and enjoy meat, eggs, cream, real cheese and a variety of non-starchy vegetables.

Dr. Jay Wortman propsed such a study, and after months of ethics reviews and consultations, Wortman and his team of researchers tested the theory that high-calorie Western foods are the root cause of those health problems, not due to the dietary fat content, but the carbohydrate.

Read more @ http://weightoftheevidence.blogspot.com/2008/03/my-big-fat-diet-aim-high-think-big.html »

You just never know what will effect public opinion to help people understand the concepts of low-carb better. But when a documentary called “My Big Fat Diet” aired on CBC-TV in Canada in early 2008, the response was overwhelming! This program followed a town of First Nations people in Canada who were placed on the diet of their ancestors–a high-fat, low-carb diet–by low-carb researcher Dr. Jay Wortman.

Read more @ www.examiner.com/x-867-LowCarb-Examiner~topic20178-Mary-Bissell»

My Big Fat Diet is going to be shown again on CBC Newsworld’s “The Lens” on January 6, 2009. For broadcast times, check your local listings. 

By way of update, the show won a Silver Chris award at the Columbus Film Festival and was shown at the Native American Film Festival in San Francisco. So far there has not been an American broadcast although a number of dvd copies have been purchased from Mary’s website by Americans (www.mybigfatdiet.net). I expect it is just a matter of time before an American broadcaster picks it up.

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What a series of incredible interviews with the experts we have had recently with some of the world's finest low-carb researchers and major players in promoting the science behind low-carb living at my podcast show. And today I have another great interview to share from the American Society of Bariatric Physicians and Nutrition & Metabolism Society conference in Phoenix, Arizona in April.

Read more @ http://livinlavidalocarb.blogspot.com/2008/05/livin-la-vida-low-carb-show-episode-137.html »