#Fat sick and nearly dead generator#
#Fat sick and nearly dead driver#

As soon as I started to lower the doses, the initial problem would recur. Anybody who knows about that knows itвЂ™s an extremely high dose and the side effects are not pretty-moon-face, hunchback, excessive weight gain and, of course, osteoporosis because youвЂ™re leaching out a lot of your calcium. It was debilitating and when I went to the doctor, he gave me 80mg to 90mg of the steroid prednisone. I lived with this fear of being touched, of feeling pressure, physical pressure. If someone was to shake my hand with a very firm handshake, four or five hours later it could affect my hand as though it had been slammed in a car door and it would swell up to the size of a balloon. Then I got really sick with a chronic autoimmune disease called chronic urticaria and angioedema, which is a fancy word for saying really bad hives that wonвЂ™t go away and are not on the surface of the skin-theyвЂ™re below the dermis, way down deep, which means that the histamine thatвЂ™s released by your body to try and protect yourself leaks into your joints. The doctor would give me some pills, the course of the medication would be a week, maybe two weeks, and good as gold. I turned my back on Mother Nature and lived predominantly on fast food. With the bank balance growing, something else grew, and it was my waist size. Somewhere along the way from being a little boy who loved going to the beach and playing rugby, running and being very active, the focus went to an obsession over my bank balance growing. It was all about how many boats, how many cars, how many watches-all about stuff.

JOE CROSS: I came from a world of finance. What made you want to switch to a more plant-based diet? When you filmed Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead, you were living with a painful autoimmune condition as well. ItвЂ™s incredible what happens-the transformation that takes place. In the first, Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead, you come to America, rather obese, and decide to only drink fruits and vegetables for 60 days. Watching all three of them was quite an intense process. Part road trip, part self-help manifesto, FAT, SICK & NEARLY DEAD defies the traditional documentary format to present an unconventional and uplifting story of two men from different worlds who each realize that the only person who can save them is themselves.ДЄpril 1st, 2011 (Limited) by Reboot MediaДЇood, Directing Yourself, Medical and Hospitals, Agitprop, Road TripCrossвЂ™ words of wisdom: вЂњLove yourself and love your plants.вЂќД¬RISTINA CUOMO: Naturalist writer Wendell Berry said, вЂњPeople are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food,вЂќ which is very evident in each of your films. What emerges is an inspiring tale of healing and human connection. As Joe is recovering his health, Phil begins his own epic journey to get well. He is a cheeseburger away from a heart attack. Phil Staples is morbidly obese weighing in at 429 pounds.

#Fat sick and nearly dead driver#

While talking to more than 500 Americans about food, health and longevity, it's at a truck stop in Arizona where Joe meets a truck driver who suffers from the same rare condition. Across 3,000 miles Joe has one goal in mind: To get off his pills and get healthy.

#Fat sick and nearly dead generator#

He trades in the junk food and hits the road with juicer and generator in tow, vowing only to drink fresh fruit and vegetable juice for the next 60 days. With doctors and conventional medicines unable to provide a solution, Joe turns to the only option left: the body's ability to heal itself. With one foot already in the grave, the other wasn?t far behind. In the mirror he saw a 310-pound man, with a gut bigger than a beach ball and a future that wouldn't end well. One hundred pounds overweight, loaded up on steroids and suffering from a debilitating autoimmune disease, Cross is at the end of his rope. The film follows the reboot mission of its filmmaker, Joe Cross.