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Obesity and type 2 diabetes are rampant epidemics among the aboriginal communities of Canada. And it all started as they began eating a modern Western diet, full of refined carbohydrates.

This disaster is usually blamed on sedentary lifestyles and โ€œeating too muchโ€. An energy imbalance, as Coca Colaโ€™s staff of propagandists would have you believe.

However, what would happen if an entire town of First Nation people went back to eating the way they used to? A high-fat low-carb diet based on real food? With no exercise or calorie counting program whatsoever?

This is what the Canadian doctor Jay Wortman and a documentary team decided to find out, in the delightful and enlightening movie My Big Fat Diet.

Guess what happenedโ€ฆ

Full movie

Check out the trailer above (transcript). The full movie โ€“ one of my all-time low-carb favorites โ€“ is available on the Diet Doctor membership site () with many .

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