My Big Fat Diet
This disaster is usually blamed on sedentary lifestyles and “eating too much”. An energy imbalance, as Coca Cola’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 happened…
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Absurd, to say the least.
They had a support system almost no average person could even wish for and they still didn't feel capable of following the diet laid out for them.
I often think it's a little naive the way people often challenge whole cultures to make massive changes, (yes, in this case albeit a smaller one,) changes that really are very personal and in the end very solitary. Maybe this community was TOO close. They had all gone so far from the native diet and in fairly short time. Hopefully a little stuck, and that's the best they could get at the time.
Just shows how great information is at times just not enough.
My understanding is that most of them have returned to eating their unhealthy foods.
I frequently see it with customers of mine. They do good for a long time and then they go back to old habits, even though they know it's not good for them.
I wonder what could be done to help, part from support groups?
As for returning to old habits I would point to the entertainment/addiction complex. No doubt it is a perversion of some speciel virtues which are intended to keep us eating healthy foods as found in the wild. The food preferences that outpace more natural options "catch on" regardless of their good or bad health effects.
Add to this their ubiquity both commercially and socially and it becomes difficult to break the entertainment/addiction cycle and even more difficult to keep it broken. One of my family members refuses to avoid modern techno-food out of sheer loyalty to our econo-culture!
Support groups help to avoid effects of the entertainment/addiction cycle but for now that cycle still seems overwhelming in most of North America.
We can't make our biological behaviors go away, we can at best reconfigure them in order to produce desired results.
And for the Diet Doctor: did you read the Biggest Loser May 2016 stories in the NY Times? What is your response?
So they can gather their fish and other food with modern accouterments which all come from the benefits of cheap energy in the form of oil? Maybe go back to living in an igloo? You do know where the energy comes from to make modern housing, right?
Btw, how much longer do they live now on average, even with a SAD diet? All that, no doubt, caused by racism, right? lol
the participants have returned to their
previous diets with concomitant health
issues. It's quite sad.