Fat Sick & Nearly Dead (DVD) Reviews
Newest Review: ... planet are very overweight and there is a fast food outlet on every street corner to taunt him. We see him talk to lots of ... more
... people on his journey, and the contrast between what he is doing and the diet of junk food they are following is very strong. Obviously there is some editing here, so a lot of the people he talks to are on the larger side and stood outside fast food joints to emphasise the contrast, but the message is quite hard hitting as a result.
Joe had consulted with a doctor before he started, and also after every ten days on the regime so that his body chemistry could be analysed and he could be sure he was ok. Amazingly, the we...more
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Fat Sick & Nearly Dead [DVD] [2010] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] Release Date: 2011 - 10 - 11 Last Update 22.05.2013 23:22
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Customer Fat Sick & Nearly Dead (DVD) Reviews (2)
Fat Sick & Nearly Dead (DVD): Super Skinny Me! (953 words)by - written on 24/06/12 (Very useful, 141 readings)
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I read Daisylee's review of this film last week, and from her summary of this film I decided that it was a film that would probably appeal to me, and within a couple of days I had watched it online. This is a documentary filmed by an Australian, Joe Cross, who in his own words was 'fat, sick and nearly dead.' Heavily overweight by about a 100 pounds, and having lived a good life of excess alongside his stressful career on the stock exchange, Joe was fed up and knew something had to change. Suffering from a painful auto-immune skin disease called Urticaria, Joe was on a cocktail of drugs to control his blood levels and steroids to help his disease, ... Read the complete review
by daisylee3 - written on 13/06/12, updated on 15/06/12
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Film only review. Fat, sick and nearly dead is an Australian documentary which was filmed in 2010. It focusses on two overweight men as they switch from a diet of processed food, meat and dairy to fruit and vegetable juice. This diet is also known as 'juicing' and it's one of the most recent health crazes. The film shows Joe and Phil as they go through the initial struggles of change and we follow them as they explore the impressive health benefits of juicing. Joe Cross, the main 'character', producer, writer and narrator of Fat, Sick and Nearly dead decided to film his experience as he went on a sixty day juice fast in order to sort out his health ... Read the complete review
