Documental: Enfermo, Gordo y Casi Muerto


Event Details

This event finished on 25 June 2013


Inglés con subtítulos en Español.

Entrada libre

El australiano Joe Cross sufre sobrepeso y está medicado con esteroides por una falla inmunológica. Comienza a consumir unicamente licuados de frutas y verduras durante 60 días, conociendo Estados Unidos.

  Durante su recorrido, conoce a Phil Staples, un conductor de tractores de Sheldon, Iowa. Ambos con el mismo problema de salud y corriendo peores peligros. El comienza la dieta de licuados y logra transformar sus hábitos alimenticios, bajar de peso y poder hacer ejercicio con normalidad.

Sick, Fat and Nearly Dead, 2010

English with spanish subtitles

Free entrance

American documentary film which follows the 60-day journey of Australian Joe Cross across the United States as he follows a juice fast to regain his health under the care of Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Nutrition Research Foundation’s Director of Research. Cross and Robert Mac, both serve on the Nutrition Research Foundation’s Advisory Board. Following his fast and the adoption of a plant-based diet, Cross lost 100 pounds and discontinued all medications.

During his road-trip Cross meets Phil Staples, a morbidly obese truck driver from Sheldon, Iowa, in a truck stop in Arizona and inspires him to try juice fasting.