My Big Fat Diet: Excerpt
What happens when a small First Nations town goes cold turkey and gives up sugar and junk food for a year? My Big Fat Diet is a one-hour documentary that reveals how members of the Namgis First Nation return to a traditional-style of eating for one year to deal with an escalating problem of obesity and diabetes.
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AIRDATE
Airing:
Saturday January 8 at 10 pm ET/PT on CBC News Network
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EXTERNAL LINKS
- My Big, Fat Diet: Mystique Films
- CBCNews.ca: Food Stories
- CBCNews.ca: Aboriginals resume traditional diet to curb diabetes epidemic
- Dr. Jay's Blog
- Health Canada
- Canadian Diabetes Society
- Center for Science in the Public Interest
- Heart and Stroke Foundation
- Namgis First Nation
- Alert Bay, B.C.
- Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment
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