Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead

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.

Who knows,

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.

Quay.

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.

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..

Water...

and vegetable juice.

and about six to eight months

of eating just vegetables,

fruits, nuts and beans.

That's crazy.

- I don't think I'd survive.

- I reckon you would.

- That is unbelievable.

- I know, tell me about it.

You wanna know what else

is unbelievable?

Is just how many doctors I went to

when I first got sick.

In fact, I went to six of them.

I had skin biopsies and tests to see

if I reacted to certain things.

I took a bunch of different pills.

I even spent 14 days in hospital.

When none of that worked,

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