Movie Review - Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead

Okay, I haven't watched Food, Inc. yet... but I will eventually.
So, here's a movie review for one of the food documentaries I watched recently. Enjoy!

Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead

This movie starts off with one Australian guy, Joe Cross, who has a chronic illness that makes his body produce too much histamine and break out in flares and blisters and all kinds of nastiness. So he has to take loads of steroids which lead to lots of weight gain. After realizing that he was poisoning himself with bad food and medication, Joe decided to try a 60-day juice fast. Now, juice fasts are not for the faint of heart. During the first week, Joe spent much of the day in bed or in the bathroom because of a deep depression, hunger, and a sudden overload of fiber. He would take almost a pound of fruit and vegetables, throw it in a juicer, and drink up the funny-colored juices. Even better, he met an all-American long-distance trucker who had the same illness and was in desperate need of help. This guy, Phil Staples, weighed over 420 pounds! He was depressed, angry, and miserable. Of the two men, Phil's story was much more inspiring... he lost almost HALF of his body weight over the year since he started juicing.
Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead is a documentary that will have you on the verge of cheering the entire time, stunned at the facts of the S.A.D. (Standard American Diet), and it will make you want to buy a juicer right now! I know this is how I felt. It was definitely inspirational and showed that you don't have to eat meat to be full. I highly recommend this inspiring documentary to anyone looking into juicing.

This film can be seen on Netflix or on Hulu at this website: http://www.hulu.com/watch/289122/fat-sick-and-nearly-dead

Feel like getting into juicing? Here's some juicers that you should definitely look at (and I promise, there are cheaper ones out there):