I watched the documentary called Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead (2011). The documentary was about an Australian man named Joe Cross. When he was a teenager, he was of normal-weight and played sports. But as he grew older, his work became his top priority over his health. As a result, his health suffered, and he became extremely obese. He also acquired a hypersensitivity disorder that made his body think a bee sting was a million bee stings.
He tried many different treatments, until he stumbled across vegetable juicing for a whole month. In the documentary, he said that he had to juice the vegetables, because he wanted a lot of micronutrients. Juicing would require huge quantities of vegetables that were made more digestible for the body. At the end, he did lose significant weight and no longer required pharmaceutical drugs to treat his hypersensitivity condition.
Although vegetable juicing helped him regain his health, I wonder whether it would be any different, if he had really eaten massive quantities of vegetables instead of converting the vegetables into juice. I knew he once had an extremely large appetite. He could eat three whole large pizzas from a pizza restaurant. You would think that all that starchy stuff would limit his consumption of pizzas. Perhaps, it was the monosodium glutamate and the sugar that suppressed his natural ability to achieve satiety? Anyway, consuming three large pizzas is quite impressive.
When I was younger, my father would occasionally drive to Pizza Hut to buy 2 large pizzas and bring them home. Of course, one was usually enough to satiate us for the day, and we saved the rest for the future. There was no way we each could eat 3 whole pizzas in one sitting. Along with the pizza, we might drink tap water as a beverage, because it was free. The water helped with the swallowing.
If Joe Cross had dropped his usual diet of processed food and had gone to locally and organically grown vegetables and had eaten those vegetables in the same quantity as he would by juicing, then would he receive better or worse results? What do you think?
Imagine that you go to the supermarket and head to the Fresh Vegetables section to find organic produce. Then, you buy one of each vegetable in the supermarket, until you fill up your entire shopping cart. The vegetable must be palatable and non-poisonous while eaten raw, so carrots and celery and spinach are considered "safe, raw vegetables". Potatoes cannot be eaten raw, so you skip that. You take the vegetables home and wash them individually. You place them in clean containers and stock them in your refrigerator.
For meals, you eat nothing but these raw vegetables, and you eat them until you can't eat any more. (You want to consume the same amount of vegetables it would take to make a glass of vegetable juice, but vegetables are loaded with fiber, so you'd be stuffed before you can complete the task.) To make the bitter-tasting vegetables more palatable, you consume milder-tasting or sweeter-tasting vegetables on the side to mask the bitterness. Eating an all-vegetable diet is not healthy/balanced.
Eating an all-vegetable diet is NOT healthy or balanced.
For one thing, you will be missing out vitamin B12 and fats. Avocados are rich in fats. Even the creamy taste suggests a bucketload of fat. So, eating avocados every other day may get your dose of fats. Vitamin B12 is mostly found in animal products. So, you buy eggs each week and eat one egg a day. At home, you steam the egg, so it becomes hard-boiled. There, that's your dose of vitamin B12. You buy vegetables and eggs weekly, so you have fresh food in your refrigerator.
So, what do you predict? Do you think this diet plan is better or worse than the one Joe Cross used to improve health and immune function? Share your comments below!
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