Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead Trailer, Plus Mean Green Juice Recipe

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FAT, SICK & NEARLY DEAD is an inspiring film that chronicles Joe Cross’ personal mission to regain his health while traveling across America, juicer in tow, and inspiring others to do the same. If you are thinking about doing a “juice reboot,” there’s nothing like it! It’s invigorating, healthy and curbs one’s appetite. Get inspired by reading about Joe and Phil, and watching their documentary.

Reboot Your Life With Juicing

Joe is seriously overweight, his body laden with and suffering from a debilitating auto-immune disease to boot — an auto-immune disease that requires 15 milligrams a day of Prednisone. That dosage guarantees long-term adverse side effects.

With doctors and conventional medicine powerless to offer a real solution, Joe turns to the only option left…  The body’s ability to heal itself….

He ditches the junk food lifestyle and takes to the road with his Breville juicer vowing only to drink fresh fruit and vegetable juice for the next 60 days….

The transformation is incredible…

Joe Cross leaves his Australian home and business and goes on a physician-supervised 2-month juice fast. He spends 30 days in New York City, and the second 30 days traveling by road from East to West. Along the way he talks to people everywhere he goes, preaching the virtues of juice fasting for weight loss.

One of the main things that you will see in the documentary is how powerful and effective a juice fast can be to your health. You might think that Joe Cross was a little crazy when he’s only going to drink juice for the entire 60 days. But after seeing the positive results from Joe and a couple of individuals who also tried a similar fast, you may get inspired and motivated to reboot your own life with juicing.

Ok, so the main message of this good-natured documentary is nothing earth-shattering, but Joe’s insistence that self-help is the best help allows him to lay responsibility on ourselves.

If you’re serious about changing your lifestyle – Watch this!

Fat Sick and Nearly Dead

My 2 Cents

Although juicing for weight loss is great, doing a 60 day juice fast isn’t necessarily the easiest or the most healthy way to lose weight for most people, in my opinion. By juicing fruit and veggies you are losing virtually all of the beneficial fibers, unless of course you eat the pulp – or drink green smoothies

What I would recommend instead, is simply to add freshly made vegetable/fruit juices (and smoothies) to your diet. Unless you’re a committed, disciplined type, don’t go cold turkey on juice reboot diet, just ADD the juice. As the days go by, drink more and more of it, until you find yourself eating less and less of everything else.

Next start replacing your “meat and potato” type meals with more fruit, vegetables, as well as some whole grains and beans. Once all that’s accomplished, then try the juice fast.

Taking cold turkey plunge into the juice fast is challenging to say the least, and you might just fold and abandon the fast too quickly, and never return to the wonders of juicing. That’s why it’s better to ease into this gradually.

Also, you need to be aware of the detox effect – with some unpleasant side effects – that will kick in if you go into this too quickly.

Also, buy a really good juicer. If it’s not easy to do the juicing, it will become the excuse to quit. I recommend Breville which you can buy at a really good price at Amazon.com.

Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead Movie Trailer

Mean Green Juice Recipe

4 stalks of celery
1 cucumber — (peel off skin)
1 ginger root — (thumb size – peel off skin)
1/2 lemon — (skin cut off)
2 green apples
6 kale leaves

Here’s a short videon by Zona, on how to make the mean green juice from the movie Fat Sick and Nearly Dead.

Fat sick nearly dead juice fast: Day 24 – still going

By the way, if you’re somewhat on the market for a juicer, you will probably like to know that Joe Cross is using a Breville juicer.

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And read more about the benefits of juicing on this juicing site.

Thanks!