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A story has been released about a community of Canadian Indians that used to live solely on seafood, local game and local berries, etc., that now on the typical western diet have developed a very high diabetic population. The community was selected as a test for a high fat diet government sponsored study and in an article headlined: "Big Fat Diet a Recipe for Good Health: Doctor" By Margaret Munro, Canwest News Service Here are a few blurbs from the story, and a link to the whole story which was also made into a film documentary. ALERT BAY, B.C. - Greg Wadhams tipped the scales at 291 pounds when he joined a bold dietary experiment in this island village. Today, he's a poster boy for the Big Fat Diet, one of the most extreme dietary interventions for diabetes ever tried in Canada. The low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet is heavy on traditional foods like seafood, game and oolichan grease, a delicacy finer than the best olive oil to connoisseurs here on the Pacific Coast. Doctors say the benefits of the diet, for diabetics who can stomach the strict regime, can be remarkable. Within weeks of giving up sweet, starchy foods, Wadhams lost 19 pounds and went off the diabetes medications he had been swallowing for years. "In was incredible," the 56-year-old Wadhams says. "It was like I was young again, I had energy to burn." Three years later he is down nearly 40 pounds and still off the medications. The local Doctor recruited Wadhams and close to 100 residents of Alert Bay, off the northeast tip of Vancouver Island, to try his "therapeutic diet" for a year long federally funded project. He says the Canadian Diabetes Association, which sets guidelines for doctors and nurses treating the two million diabetics across the country, needs to wake up to the benefits of eating more fat and eliminating carbohydrate-rich foods like pop, pasta and potatoes. Low-carb diets "take away the trigger" driving the cycle, says Wortman, who is a walking endorsement for his diet. He developed diabetes seven years ago and has kept his blood sugar in check by eliminating carbs. There appears to be no going back once an intolerance develops, says the 58 year-old Wortman, who eats eggs without toast, meat without potatoes, fish without chips. A local filmmaker Barb Cranmer, produced a documentary on the study. You can read the whole story at Read Here Editors Note: Any time anyone runs anything on a high fat diet causing the dieters to lose weight, almost no one believes it. The first such study (also a big weight loss success) we have found was in a controlled study in a hospital in the U.K. in 1879. One of the participants in that study had been on every medical sponsored count calories diet, but was still at 300 pounds on a five foot body. He was so amazed by the high fat eat all the meat and fat you want diet causing him to lose his excess weight in a short time, that he wrote a book to share with others how to do it. The doctor who had conducted the study almost lost his practice for endorsing the book and the high fat diet. The medical community just could not accept the concept, which was a complete reversal of what they were advocating (just as it is today, their count calories and starve did not work then either). No one ever believed the high fat diet worked back then and nothing has changed today apparently. It works every time tried, and is basically what the Atkins diet was about, which was proven to work in study after study, but the medical society just cannot accept it.
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