Today, The Globe & Mail published a response of Dr. Jay Wortman to the discoveries from the Women’s Health Initiative Dietary Modification Trial published this week in JAMA.
Dr. Wortman arrived from British Columbia in Canada, to participate in the 2006 NMS Scientific Sessions: Nutritional & Metabolic Aspects of Carbohydrate Restriction last month and he told about his work with the population of Canadian Inuit.
The aboriginal Canadian populations are in the middle of a huge epidemic of diabetes. It is the most important health issue of that communities. Rates of diabetes are three to five times as high as the general Canadian population. To put this into perspective, the aboriginal population had practically no diabetes before 1945. They consumed fish, seal, shellfies, caribou and some berries. But their diet changed when carbohydrate had appeared and then incidence of diabetes just exploded within all the population.
Wortman’s first weapon against the disease is a low-carbohydrate diet - the traditional diet! Wortman himself does what he recommends and he also consumes a low-carb diet.
