Fat Sick And Nearly Dead Analysis

Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead is an extremely eye opening film. Joe Cross, the director/executive producer is an Australian entrepreneur who invests in high potential growth companies. He is forty-one years old, one hundred pounds overweight, weighting a total of 309 pounds, and has a condition called autoimmune disease. Once he discovers his disease is caused by unhealthy eating, he chooses to go on a cleanse of just drinking fresh green juice for sixty days. To get his health back on track he prefers to face the mouth-watering foods of America head on. While trying to find out what was wrong with his health, he visited six different doctors, spending fourteen days in the hospital. For the first thirty days Joe is staying in and around New York City under the supervision of a doctor
Then, Phil starts by going on the cleanse for ten days and by the end of those ten days he loses a total of thirty pounds. Since the first ten days went so well, Phil strives to fast for sixty days. When he reaches the sixty days he has lost a total of ninety-one pounds, has more energy, and thinks more clearly. At the end of the film, Phil stops working as a truck driver and instead follows his dreams of helping others. He is now inspiring people to add more fruits and vegetables to their meals to help improve their health. One of the lives Phil changes is his brother, Bear, who suffered a heart attack from being over weight. Since Bear has started to eat for micronutrient foods, his blood pressure is normal and he has lost forty-six pounds. As for Joe, at the end of day sixty-one he lost eighty-two pounds and he is now at the best shape of his life. He is off all medication, weights 220 pounds and is rebooting every three months for ten-fifteen days at a time. Watching this film educated me on how important it is to eat fruits and vegetables and additionally the only person that can save you is