Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead

Sometime this summer, Netflix kindly suggested this oddly named documentary for me to watch.  Out of curiousity I started watching and within minutes I was hooked.  Of all of the food documentaries we have watched, and there have been several, Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead is far and away the best.  I do, however, wish that it had a different title.

Rather than me typing out a lengthy explanation of the story, I think this trailer does a much better job:

While Joe's story is wonderful, it is Iowa truck driver, Phil, that made the movie truly inspirational.  Whether it is simply improving your diet by eating more vegetables or needing to loose some weight, we all have something to gain from watching Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead.

Our family had been gluten free and eating radically different from the Standard American Diet for several months when I watched the movie this summer.  I was immediately inspired  to attempt to add more greens to the smoothies we were drinking a few times a week.  After seeing a huge energy boost, I started looking into buying a juicer.  Since we were already doing green smoothies, I really wasn't convinced that a juicer was necessary, however, then I read a great blog post that showed just how much more vegetables you could consume when the fiber was extracted by juicing. 

When I did finally spring for the juicer, I was shocked at just how amazing that glass of green juice tasted!  Once the pulp was removed, it took very little sweet, to completely cover the flavor of a large quantity of amazingly healthy things like kale, cilantro, parsley and celery.  All vegetables that I would never sit down and eat in large quantity!  When we were making the green smoothies, it took a significant quantity of berries to cover the flavor of a smaller amount of greens.  Now my ratios are very heavy on the greens and light on the fruits.

Next up, I will  share pictures of our juicing experience. 

Comments

[Kelly M]

That's interesting about the taste of juice compared to smoothies. Now you have me wanting to taste juiced greens! I do like the bitterness of the sturdier greens covered up in my smoothies.