Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead
Part 1
Feb. 17, 2021, 1:05 p.m.
What I wanna buy is some celery.
Ah, you got the tomatoes?
Yeah, I got the tomatoes.
How many do you want?
They're two for a dollar.
Ah good, two for a dollar
I'll take four tomatoes.
Gonna try to take one onion.
One onion, you get two for a
dollar.
Alright, I'll take two.
- How much is all that?
- Four dollars.
Four dollars.
That's not very expensive,
is it?
No, not really.
- You can have that,
that's fine.
- Alright, thanks.
Alright guys,
thank you very
much.
- Y'all come back now.
- I will now.
Happy Thanksgiving.
You all have a good time.
Alright mate, see ya!
I thought it'd be nice to find
somewhere off the freeway,
amongst nature,
a beautiful spot
here in Arkansas and...
juice up my Thanksgiving lunch,
which has no turkey in it
by the way.
I think in a funny way
I'm thankful that I got sick
because if I didn't get sick,
that was my body telling me
to slow down and get well.
if I hadn't had got sick,
I might not have ever
slowed down and I might have
already had a heart attack and
died, so...
We'll never know.
I'm thankful for that.
G'day.
My name's Joe Cross,
and I'm an Australian,
in case you couldn't work
that out from the accent.
I've just arrived
in the United States.
I'm not gonna eat
any of your food.
I've come here
to fast for 60 days.
All I'm gonna do is drink juice,
green juice.
60 days.
60 nights.
Why am I doing this?
Well, let me show you.
Take a good hard look at my gut.
How many pizzas, burgers, fries,
and cokes do you reckon I
inhaled
to create that masterpiece?
I'm certainly no picture of
health.
I look like
I've swallowed a sheep.
Not only am I overweight,
I'm also sick.
For the past nine years,
I've been taking pills,
night and day,
just to get by.
But as of today,
I'm saying enough is enough.
I know what you're thinking...
"Can't you just eat the fruit
and vegetables? Why juice?"
Well, have a look at just
how many vegetables
it takes to make one juice.
I don't care how hungry I am,
I don't think I could eat this
four times a day.
So, by juicing,
I'm super-charging
my nutrient intake.
That's a lot, isn't it?
I've tried this before
but never for this long.
In the past, I've always
gone back to my old ways.
This time, once I'm done,
I'm determined to adopt
a healthy lifestyle.
But first,
I have to get through
the next 60 days.
So, I have a plan.
For the next 30, I'm gonna hang
in and around New York,
and after that, I'm gonna drive
across the country.
What I'm doing is
a documentary on health.
- About what?
- Health.
- Health?
- You know, what we eat.
I'm actually going across
America,
on a tour around the States.
I've got a thing called
Chronic Urticaria,
which is like a chronic rash.
- You got a what?
- An illness, like a disease.
I put myself there
by having a lot of junk food,
eating a lot of crap,
not eating vegetables,
not eating fruits.
I believe
what we put into our body
is very important as
to how healthy we're gonna be.
I'm on a juice fast.
You ever heard of fasting?
Fasuma ..
Fasuma.
Water...