Fat Sick And Nearly Dead Analysis

The documentary “Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead” is an inspirational reflection of the benefits of maintaining a healthy lifestyle. A man named Joe Cross shares his story of how a sixty day juice cleanse completely changed his life. In the beginning of the documentary, we see him six weeks after starting his cleanse where he’s buying fruits and vegetables from a stand on the side of the road. Joe then uses what he bought and puts them into a juicer he keeps in his car. After making his juice, he sits at the top of a hill where he shares with us that he is thankful he got sick because this was his body telling him to slow down and get well. Moving back in time before his cleanse, a cartoon is played to imitate Joe and his conditions that support him in titling the documentary, “Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead.” Finally, we see Joe as a 41 year old man who’s extremely overweight because of his unhealthy eating habits and sick from his rare skin disease that causes a red rash all over his body.

for a total of sixty days where he will spend the first 30 in New York and the last 30 will be traveling across the U.S. to complete his juice cleanse. To explain his reasoning for doing this, he gives the example of how when you scraped your knee as a kid, it would heal on its own if left alone. So he asked himself, “If the body can heal itself on the outside, why can’t it heal itself on the inside?” Over the past few years, Joe has been putting his “wealth before his health” which has led to his poor conditions. When beginning the cleanse, he will receive a blood test every ten days, so his doctor can supervise his health. The first few days were the most difficult, and he spent most of the time in his bed because even on TV there was food which made him want to stay away from any chance of coming in contact with