Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead 2 (2014) - full transcript

All right, so,
I just wanna say

Thank you for all
coming out today.

I appreciate everyone
spreading the good word.

The inspiration
being passed on.

Obviously, everyone's
seen the movie.

We have any people here
that have done a reboot?

Fantastic.

How 'bout this group
over here?

How many days
are we talking?

-Four days?
-Six.

-You're on day six?
-Yep.



-Day seven.
-Day seven?

-Fantastic.
-Three days.

You're on day three?
How you feeling?

-Good!
-We don't need to call 911

for anyone on three days
of this, right?

All right, okay?
We're all alive.

We're hanging
in there, right?

America is in the midst
of a brand-new juicing craze,

and I've got the man
who some say started it all.

Two years ago, Joe Cross
was, in his own words,

fat, sick, and nearly dead.

I've got a thing called
chronic urticaria,

which is like
a chronic rash.

-You got a what?
-It's an illness.



You know,
like a disease.

To save his life,
he did something radical:

he hit the road
with a juicer in tow.

Now, I've got my juicer...

Now, this stuff
will save your life.

Cheers. Good health.

Drinking only fresh juice
for 60 days.

That decision
transformed his health.

So anyone that done
the reboot in the past.

Anyone done more
than 20 days?

Oh, wow.

So how long
did you go for?

-21.
-Oh, really? Good.

Lucky I chose 20
rather than 30?

-And...
-30.

30 days. Congratulations.
Fantastic.

And how did you feel?

Tell me how you felt
after 21 days?

I felt great... I think
the biggest difference

was I was immediately able
to go into a plant-based diet.

I had no cravings.

It was very easy
to eat healthy.

-Yeah.
-So I figured out...

Okay, so the good news is that...

I've been out on the road now

with the movie.

This message of, like,
drinking and eating

more fruits and vegetables,

It seems to be catching on.

And so I'm just lucky enough
to be the person

who can share my experience,
and then you can go on

and share yours, and that's
how you can pay me back.

Little shots here.
Should be enough for everybody.

She really loves
drinking green...

She likes the juice?
That's great.

I love the sunnies.

And I think this is how
we make a big difference

in the world, one person,
one juice at a time.

-Cheers.
-Cheers!

I'm gonna be round
My vegetables

I'm gonna
Chow down my vegetables

I love you most of all

My favorite vegetable

If you brought a big brown
Bag of them home

I'd jump up and down
And hope you'd toss me a carrot

I'm gonna keep well
My vegetables

Cart off
And sell my vegetables

I love you
Most of all

My favorite vegetable

Chomp, chomp
Chomp, chomp

Do-do-do
Do-do-do

Bop bop bop bop
Do-do-do, do-do-do

I know that
You'll feel better

When you send us
In your letter

And tell us
The name of your

Your favorite vegetable

Well, I'm back on Manly Beach.

And it's been five years
since we wrapped up

"Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead,"
and at the time,

I'd lost 82 pounds,
I'd got off all medication,

and I was feeling fantastic.

Well, I've learned a lot
these last five years.

And one of the big things
I've learned is,

yeah, it was hard
to drop the weight,

but, boy, is it tough
keeping it off.

So... I'm back
to go on a journey

to find out how you can
stay healthy

in predominately
an unhealthy world.

Excuse me, folks, do you have
five minutes to talk to us?

We're making
a documentary film.

-For what?
-About eating healthy.

What do you think
of the American diet?

It's failing.

Are most Ozzies healthy,
or unhealthy?

-No. No, unhealthy.
-No, no.

You think that most people
are healthy over here?

-No, not at all.
-Really?

Americans eat for comfort.

It's like so easy, too.

You just drive up
to a drive-thru window.

It's so convenient.

What do you call healthy food?

Healthy food is fruits, nuts, grains,

anything that is fresh.

Vegetables, home-cooked meals.

Stay away from
the fast food.

Good old grilled cheese.

-Always a favorite.
-Right.

Pretty much anything with cheese
on it, I'll eat it.

-Anything with cheese?
-Seriously.

-So you're a big cheese man.
-Oh, yeah.

Can you say that again,
"What are vegetables?"

They're disgusting and nasty.

-Vegetables.
-Yes. I don't eat 'em.

One person I know who loves
her veggies is Stacy Kennedy,

the nutritionist I spoke to
in my first movie.

So when you first heard
that I was gonna do

a 60-day juice fast,
what'd you think?

I was a little shocked.
I thought it was very extreme

and definitely not something
that we would promote

to the general public.

Yeah, believe me,
it was extreme, and I'm...

I'm not telling anyone
to do it.

But people are talking to me
about what I'm doing,

and, they're...
They're asking me

and coming
to me for advice.

And, really, I mean,
I'm not an expert.

I'm just a bloke who decided
to make some changes,

and document those changes...

as an example or,
you know, lesson to others.

It may be a good lesson,
maybe not a good lesson.

I'm not sure.

A 60-day juice fast
sounds catchy and exciting,

and that worked for you.

But the focus
is absolutely long term.

We don't have a shortage
of, you know, really,

people losing weight
so much in this country.

There's a lot of diets
and weight loss.

Viewers are contacting us

about something called
the Paleo diet.

The Mediterranean diet.

Eating cotton balls
to lose weight.

You know, anyone can sort of
go out and lose weight.

But can you do it
in a healthy way?

Can you maintain
that weight loss?

And I think that
that is where

one of our biggest
challenges is right now.

He says he lost 37 pounds

after eating just McDonald's
for 90 days.

A wake-up call
about salt.

We're eating far more
salt than we should,

and it's been linked

to cardiovascular disease
and stroke.

A new study
is shaking things up.

It finds that eating less salt
does not reduce

the risk
of having heart disease.

And also, eggs.

Turns out they may be healthier
than they were before.

It's no yoke.

A new study
suggesting eating eggs

could be just as dangerous
as smoking?

Are you confused?
I know I am.

I reckon the first challenge

is sorting through all this
nutritional information

that we're
bombarded with every day.

And Dr. Ornish, a clinical
Professor of medicine

at the University of California,
San Francisco, joins us...

I've been a veteran of all these
different diet debates,

and diet wars over the years.

And I got really tired of
doing that after a while

because there's so much heat
and very little light.

But I think that, with,
you know, the exceptions

of some extreme views,
most people...

There's a consensus about
what constitutes

an optimal way of eating.

And it goes
something like this.

To the degree that you can

eat more towards
a plant-based diet...

Fruits, vegetables,
whole grains, legumes,

soy products, in their natural,
unrefined forms, that's optimal.

Because it's not only low in the
disease-causing substances,

but it's also high in
disease-preventing substances.

There are literally
hundreds of thousands

of protective substances,
and you find them mostly

in fruits and vegetables
and whole grains and legumes,

and so on.

But also, you want
to try to avoid,

too many refined
carbs and sugar.

Because when you go from, say,
brown rice to white rice,

or from whole wheat flour
to white flour,

you're removing
the fiber and the bran,

and that's what fills
you up, the fiber and the bran,

before you get
too many calories.

You can only eat so many apples.

You'll get full before
you get too many calories.

But you can consume virtually
unlimited amounts of sugar

without getting full,
because you've removed

the fiber and the bran
that fill you up.

And the fiber and the bran also
slow the absorption of the food

from your gut
into your blood.

So if you just eat, like,
the sugar and have a soft drink,

your blood sugar spikes up,
your pancreas makes insulin

to bring your blood sugar
back down,

but over time, those
repeated surges of insulin

both predispose to
chronic inflammation...

They accelerate the conversion
of calories into fat,

and they have lots
of other unhealthy effects.

So what I tell people
is just say,

"Look, food
isn't good are bad.

Some foods are healthier
for you than others,

but it's not so much
a moral choice.

It's just,
what do you want to do?"

This is a part
of the world

I never used to spend
a lot of time in.

I used to look at this like,
"Vegetables, fruit...

Now, I kind of
get, like, really excited

when I come to a place that is, like,
the produce section.

All this color just bouncing
out of this, you know.

You've got your reds,
your purples,

your yellows,
your oranges, and your greens.

And that has been
a really big change.

When you think about it,

there's really only
three things we can eat.

Plants, animals,
and processed food.

But, for most
of our history,

we've only had
two of those.

Plants... And animals.

Processed foods have
really only come along

in the last 70 years.

Think of hunger this way.

When your cells
need supplies,

they pick up the phone
and call room service.

A message is sent
to the brain saying,

Joe, we're hungry!

Send food
and send it now.

For most of our history,
that meant either animals

or plants.

But mostly plants.

These days, most of us
have replaced those plants

with the new kid on the block,
processed food.

As a result of this,
our cells are missing out

on vital nutrients,
and they're not happy.

They didn't get what they
needed or ordered.

So, you'll get hungry again,
and quickly.

Without these nutrients,

those cells function
less efficiently.

So the problem isn't
just what we're eating

is making us sick...

It's that we're not eating
enough of what keeps us well.

And that is why
what you eat,

combined with other
lifestyle choices,

plays such a huge role
in determining

your overall health.

G'day, everybody.
This is Joe here.

I have some exciting news.

We would love you to be in

our next full-length
feature film.

How do you end up
being in our film?

Very simple:
You make a video

just like I'm doing
right now.

Hi.

I'm Debbie.

Hi, my name is Anupam, and we're
coming to you from Dubai.

Hello, my name is Elva,

and I am Icelandic.

Aloha, Joe and Reboot Team.

Aloha from Hawaii.

This is Manbotero.

And I have Santa Bell here.

My biggest challenges
to eating healthy

are when I leave my house.

Time, you know. Scheduling.

The fact that I travel a lot,
so I'm on the road.

Often, I'm in airports and...
Hotels, and there...

Most of the things that are
convenient for you to grab

on the fly are not
healthy for you at all.

So this is basically
my life these days.

In and out of airports.

I'm actually at the airport now.
About to fly to Vancouver.

Arrived in Hamburg.

I'm definitely coming
back to Manila.

Juicing is much more fun
in the Philippines!

Philippines, yeah!

Where am I right now?

Toronto, Ontario.

Sometimes, I forget where I am.

Okay, so we've reached Seoul,
South Korea.

Juicing up a storm
in the south of France.

So I'm standing on
The Great Wall of China.

Just want to show you
what we've got here.

Yes, we've got
Oreo cookies.

One of the problems,
when you juice a lot,

is you have to go
here a lot.

See that?

So we are in, London.

And, here's what I do.

You're actually
in my house.

I now live most of my time
in hotels,

where there's a bed,
there's my office over there.

And, I also have
my office here.

That's kind of like
my two offices.

And that's what I do,
and it's now...

early evening,
and we're about to head out and...

hit the town.

And a night on the town for me
is talking about juice.

Expecting a good turnout tonight.

Maybe 100 people.

See you, mate!

How are you?
You all right?

Now, can I'm gonna ask
the audience to stand up

if you've done a reboot.

Okay fantastic.
Stay standing

if you juiced
for more than one day

with just juice only.

Keep your hands up if you juiced
for more than three days.

Three days or more...

So more than ten days?

How about more than 20 days?

There's a few other things
that have changed.

Have to wear glasses now.

Hair's got a lot grayer.

But still, I feel great.

I feel young, feel good,
feel healthy, feel alive.

And I work really hard,
and I travel a lot.

So, I'm hanging in there,
and I'm doing it,

and it's working.

It's filling up nicely.

As you can see...

Yes?

Can I just say
that you have quite literally

saved my life?

Oh, thank you very much.
That's very kind of you to say.

I was diagnosed
about three years ago

with fibromyalgia,

which is chronic tiredness,
chronic pain all over my body.

I've now been juicing
at least twice a day since May,

and I'm no longer
on any medication.

I don't walk with a stick anymore.

I have no pain.

And I feel absolutely amazing.

I feel now I've got a life ahead of me
instead of a death sentence.

Congratulations. That's awesome.

And it's thanks to you.

Well, I look at it
as it's down to you.

So please don't think
I get blase about hearing it.

Every time I hear it,

I am just touched
beyond words.

So, thank you
for sharing with me...

I've suffered from Crohn's disease
since I was, like, 17 years old.

I'm 32 now.
After seeing Joe's movie last year,

it inspired me
to go buy a juicer,

and within a few months
after that,

I was feeling better,

and don't necessarily need
my medication anymore.

So the guy inspired me
to change my life.

It's amazing how many people
come up to me at the end

and just tell
me how juicing

and how eating
more plant food

has really changed
and affected their lives,

and I look at my Twitter feed
or I look at Facebook...

And it gives me the strength,

gives me the power,
gives me the will to keep going.

And, I mean,
they're my inspiration.

Tell you what...

A little tired.

Look, it hasn't been easy.

I'm first to admit that.

But over the six years,

I kind of started out,
as we all know,

around 310, 320 pounds.

I got down to 220 pound.

And right now
I sit around 240.

And my weight can change,

and it does go up
between 240 and 250,

depending on my travel
and stress levels.

Like, I'm like anyone else,

and when things
are going well

and are, you know, routine,

I tend to eat really well.

But when stress
comes into my life

and I'm feeling the pressure,

then I tend to make
poorer choices.

I guess the big difference now

is that if I do go off the rails,

I can always do another reboot
and get back on track.

I'm not perfect,

but I have done my best

to try and amp up
my fruit and vegetable intake.

And, you know,
it sits around 40%.

And that's not 40% of,
like, what's on the plate.

That's 40% of the calories.

It sort of means
breakfast and lunch, to me,

is very plant-based,

and then dinnertime,

I still put salads and veggies
into it,

but I might have processed
or animal part then.

You put lemon juice and olive oil.

To me,
what's more important

and what's more valuable
out of my journey

is that I'm not sick anymore,
and I don't take medication,

and that my blood pressure
and my cholesterol

are all in the normal range,

and that...
That's what gets me excited.

That was good.

Thank you so much.

I decided I needed
to improve my diet

because I was tired
of feeling tired all the time.

It really wasn't
even my decision.

I had three bulging discs,

bilateral sciatica,
and scoliosis,

and I could barely walk.

I would go to my doctors
all the time,

and I would say,
"I'm broken."

And they'd look at me,

and I'd say,
"No, something's wrong."

I just thought,
"It can't already be this bad.

I'm only 31.

It can't...
My life can't be over."

But my life felt over.
I was extremely sick.

I decided I needed
to improve my diet

for my own health,

for my wife,

to be around for her
and for my kids, especially.

I have this beautiful son,
this beautiful new human,

and I'm responsible
for what goes into his body,

and that has had
a huge impact on me,

just thinking about that.

I realized that I needed
to do something,

and I fortunately realized

that I needed to do
something drastic.

I needed to do something
to change my life.

Here was Joe, and he'd done it.

And if he'd done it,
I wanted to see how.

Whenever I feel
like I've gone off the rails,

I generally turn to a reboot.

What's a reboot?

It's a set period of time

whereby I'm only gonna consume
fruits and vegetables.

You can eat or juice them
or do both.

For me, as you know,
I'm a juice-only kind of guy.

Now, you may think
this is a little strange,

but our bodies
are used to periods

when food was scarce.

Imagine you're back in time
and you're on the savanna

and there's not a lot of food around.

The first few days,
you're gonna be doing it tough.

You're gonna be hungry
and tired.

You're gonna have
pain and misery,

and you're not gonna want
to move.

But hang in there.

This is all part of survival.

Your body is giving you
hard-to-ignore signals

which remind you to eat.

Since you're not getting

as many calories
as you're used to,

your body will start
burning its energy reserves

stored in the fat and muscle.

It's different for everybody,

but for me, I burned 70%
of my energy from fat

and 30% from muscle reserves.

Now, around day three or four,

you're body's gonna say...

Hold on a second!

I don't know
how he's ignoring

all these signals
I was sending.

You see, making you
tired and angry

wasn't working,

so it's time for plan "B."

Let's call this
'Survival Mode'.

First, the body
will switch off hunger

because that
hasn't been helping.

Then you'll experience
better focus,

-Better hearing...
-Huh?

Better eyesight,

a better sense of smell,

and lots of energy...

All the things you need
to find food.

Now that hunger
is in the past,

you'll feel a million bucks,

and because you've been
flooding your system

with a broad set
of micro nutrients

your cells are gonna be
doing cartwheels with joy.

You've gone from the valley,
where you were sick and tired,

to the top of the mountain,
where you feel amazing.

And now it's time
for your reboot to end

and for you to come back
to the present day.

You've now
reset your taste buds,

and your body will crave
healthier food.

But this is only
the beginning.

The food choices you make
after the reboot

will determine if you
stay on top of the mountain

or start to slide
down the hill.

And the good news is
there's always another reboot

To get you back on top.

What do you reckon
the biggest challenge is

for people today
to be healthy?

-What do you reckon it is?
-Time.

Woman problems...

-Women problems.
-All that good stuff.

So, that's stress, right?

-Yeah, a little bit, yeah.
-That's stress.

Yeah, when you
have problems...

Well, I'm the same, like, if I...

If you've got problems,
I run to sugar.

What do you run to?

I don't want to say.

You're so busy, right?

-Life just overtakes you.
-Yeah, yeah.

And food and consumption
isn't something

that's at top of the mind
for people.

I reckon, generally, we know what's
good for us.

What do you reckon
you should be eating

to be healthier?

Probably fruits
and vegetables.

Vegetables.

Fruits and vegetables.
That's what I do.

And we know what's bad for us.

What would you say
you eat the most of?

-Bad food.
-Bad food?

-Bad food.
-Bad food.

-Why?
-'Cause we love it.

But it's not good
for my health.

Do you know that?

Yes, I know it now.

I've never met anyone
that needed me to tell them

that fruit and vegetables
are good for you.

So what are you
eating there, mate?

It's like...

-Bread.
-Sort of bread...

You're just eating it
and you don't know what it is?

But we still continue to choose
to eat things

that aren't healthy.

Well, American waistlines
keep getting bigger.

We all blame fast food,
but what about cookbooks?

Brian Wansink...

I reached out to Brian Wansink,

a former executive director
of the USDA's Center

for Nutritional Policy
and Promotion

and current professor
at Cornell University.

Brian has spent
his entire career studying

why you and I make
the decisions we do

when it comes
to food choices.

What we're gonna
look at here is

we're gonna look at
this notion of licensing.

Now, a lot of times
when it comes to food,

we look for excuses to
give ourselves permission

-to eat whatever we want to, okay?
-Yeah.

-And it's called licensing.
-Right.

Now, if this place is typical,

we'll find about 20 things
here that probably do that.

All right, mate, after you.

So what pops out
to you here, Brian?

What's the first thing
you sort of noticed

as we come into the cafe?

The first thing I notice
is that there's no way

I'm gonna get
a dessert with lunch.

Okay, 'cause it's just
not what I think about.

But if I'm waiting
three minutes in line,

I'm gonna say no, no, no,
no, no, no, no.

But I'm gonna get here,
and what's gonna happen

is I'm gonna say,
"You know, I was a good boy.

I said no to every one
of those first six items.

I deserve something."

And I'll say yes
to that last item.

Right. And this is licensing?

-Yeah.
-This is,"Because I said no,

-I'm now giving myself a yes..."
-Yes.

"...when I get here
to pick up the muffin

-or the cookie."
-Yeah, the brownie.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, 'cause
I've been a good boy.

I've been a good boy,
I've been a good boy.

I've been a good boy.
Now I need a treat.

Yeah, yeah.
I could see that.

Let's take a look some...
What else they do.

We take a look here
at the ice cream.

You don't say,
"Do I want ice cream, yes or no?"

You kinda go, "Hey, does
anything look good in there?"

And I'm instantly making
a decision.

So there's five or six decisions

-that could go on just here.
-Oh, yeah, yeah.

And it's not just
which one we want,

but it's,
"Do I want it now?

Am I gonna have
a big dinner tonight?"

Things like this.

So when I come in here,
and I see...

I mean, we've got a whole
wall here of the menu.

So you told me that
we make 200 decisions

regarding food a day.

Are these all the decisions
that you're talking about?

It's not just decisions as
to whether we're gonna choose

The California Dreamin'
or The Sweet Onion Sandwich.

It's all the decisions
we're not even aware of.

The thing about most
of these 200 decisions

is we're only aware
that we make about 30 or 40 of them.

And so there's all these things
in our environment

that can nudge
or bump...

170 decisions to lead us
to eat a little bit more,

to choose a little worse
than we otherwise would,

'cause we're not even aware
we're making 'em.

-Right.
-And you think you deserve it,

and you're gonna buy
whatever you want.

We should go, then.

That's right.

-Thank you.
-Thank you very much.

You know, I'm glad
we got out of there

without buying anything.

Yeah, that wasn't too hard.

But that was only
our first stop, Brian.

That's right.

So what's our next stop?

It says, what, "Healthy
Mexican Restaurant?"

Yeah, I think it's healthy
if you eat half as much.

Okay, well,
let's go check it out.

I think, Brian,
that many people,

what they're struggling
with is that they feel

that the odds
are against them.

They feel that there is...
Just like it's just

all too hard.

When we talk about the odds
being against them,

how much of an effect
does marketing have

on people's food choices
and what they eat?

Anything that makes a food
more attractive

makes it more appealing to us.

It's not just what
a marketer does,

it's what our grandmother does
when she says, "Oh, here's

grandmother's," you know,
"special apple pie."

Essentially, she's doing
the same sort of marketing

that the food companies are,
in many ways.

Where we can make
the biggest difference quickest

is essentially by not
marketing food to ourselves.

By not keeping
the cereal box

sitting right in the middle
of the counter,

where you can walk by
and grab a handful

every time we want to.

By not having the least-healthy
food in our kitchen

be the first one we see
when we open the cupboard.

I mean, you open the cupboard,

the first food you see you're
three times as likely to take

-than the fifth food you see.
-Right.

So why stack the deck
against ourselves

by having
the least-healthy whatever...

Chocolate-covered potato chips
with fudge...

-right front and center?
-Right.

And a lot of these changes are
very easy things we can make

so we don't stack the deck
against ourselves.

What we can...
Oh, hey, thank you.

-Thank you very much.
-Yummy, yummy, yummy.

For me now,
to have these here,

I would,
and easily could,

devour all of that.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

It's our moral obligation
'cause it's in front of us.

We're not gonna waste food.

The only way to change this,

the only way to keep
from doing that is,

essentially, to change
our environment.

It's a lot easier to change
our food environment

than to change our mind.

Which is why you just
put that over there.

The one thing that
a person can control

immediately tonight is what
they do in their own kitchen.

Right.

Since doing the reboot,
one rule that I made

that helps me stay healthy
is that I am going

to keep my kitchen
and my refrigerator stocked

with fruits and vegetables...

And having things
readily available.

Strawberries washed in a bowl,

blueberries, bananas on the counter.

I'm more likely
to grab a banana

if it's sitting
in front of me.

My top tips
for eating healthier are

keep it out of the house.

And so out if sight,
out of mind.

If I keep chips or cookies

or whatever in the house,

I will eat it.

And so even if
it's not mine to eat...

My husband will
bring home junk food for him,

and I'll end up eating it,
so we've now established

that the home is
a healthy place,

and it's really made
a big difference.

So I'm Dr. Carrie Diulus.

I am an orthopedic
spine surgeon.

-Mommy...
-Hey...

I have struggled
with weight issues

my entire life.

And while I was pregnant
with my son,

I had a lot of complications
related to that,

and I ended up in the hospital
for well over a month.

And they said,
"You could have a stroke.

You could permanently
lose your vision."

After my son was born,
my vision stabilized,

and all of those symptoms
were going away,

but they didn't
know what started it,

so there's always the fear
that it could come back.

And I really started
to seek out ways

to get things in balance.

What do you want
in your juice?

-I'll show you.
-All right.

I got everything clean.

A friend of mine
had brought up

this movie
that she had seen,

"Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead,"

and said, "Hey, what
do you think about juicing?"

So that weekend
I watched the movie.

I went out that day
and I bought a juicer,

and started doing
the juice fast.

And that's when I did
the 42 days.

I haven't had a headache since.

I haven't had any problems
with my vision since,

and felt better than I had
ever felt in my life.

I didn't realize how bad
I felt for so long

until I felt this good.

And, in fact, losing weight
is probably an important

but small portion
of the whole equation.

Good?

Just the introduction
of juice

into our household has
significantly increased

the amount of fresh fruits
and vegetables

that the entire family eats.

And I think that's really
the main benefit of all of this.

What'd you say, Lou?

-Found you.
-Found me?

And now it's easy
for me to see

something's a little
out of balance.

You know, there are weekends
where life is crazy

and pizza happens,
and pudding happens,

and parties happen.

And... We don't focus on it,

and the next week,
we eat a lot more

fruits and vegetables
to balance it out.

What do you got, guy?
Step on up.

I got steaks, steaks,
and more steaks.

-So, what are you eating there?
-French fries.

-You like 'em?
-Mm-hmm.

How much do you like 'em?

I'd say they're
my third favorite food.

Third favorite?

You eat a lot
of fruit and vegetables?

Not... Not really as...
Not really, no.

Why do you reckon that is?

I don't know.

-You got kids?
-Yeah, two.

-How many kids? Two kids?
-Two kids.

And, what do they like to eat?

Anything, but not veg...
Not the vegetables.

What about fruits
and veggies?

Do you ever eat
fruits and veggies?

Do you like fruits
and vegetables?

What's your favorite vegetables?

Cucumbers.

Cucumbers?

Are fruits and vegetables
a big part of your diet at home?

Absolutely.

So what advice
would you have

for some other parents
that have kids

that are not eating
their veggies and their fruits?

Try, try, and try again.

If they don't eat it,
continue to give it to them.

And eventually
they'll try it,

and they may even like it.

I find that if they
help prepare it,

they're a bit more
interested in eating it.

I kinda grew up with,
you know, sitting at...

I couldn't get out the table
'till I finished my greens,

so that's kind of how
I grew up.

And at least now
I look back on it

and I thank my mom,
'cause now I know

the true importance of it.

The last time I caught up
with Stacy Kennedy,

she suggested that
I should meet her husband Russ.

He's a behavioral psychologist.

Scoop that into the bowl.

I thought he could shed some light

on how we can help
our kids get on the path

to healthy eating.

I'll smash it.
So just go like this.

I wanna smash it.

We are setting these kids up
with habits that they will take

their whole lives.

You know, let me give you
two quick experiences

that you could have
for dinner.

One experience is
starting to hear

the pots and pans and the plates
and the silverware.

They have these
very distinct sounds.

And over time,
I'm just gradually

brought into this
experience of eating.

Here's the other experience.

The doorbell rings.

Someone's holding
two pizzas,

and now
you're ready to eat.

So one of those situations,

my body had all this time
to prepare itself.

My stomach muscles relaxed.
The stomach organ expanded.

The whole alimentary canal
starts to lubricate

so that the food can
get down there easier.

And this happens over this time
while I'm preparing the food.

So now, when I eat
the food,

my body is in
this wonderful place

to absorb as much
of that good stuff as it can.

And then I have this wonderful
experience with my family.

So even this is kind of creating
our own culture for our boys,

so that as they grow up,
healthy eating is just

this natural byproduct
of living a life

that he has deemed healthy,
not because we

shoved it down his face.

It's 'cause he's done it,
and he feels good about it.

Nummy, huh?

Most of us grow up
learning to eat

from our parents.

And some of us grow up
learning to eat well

from our parents.

But what's really
knocked my socks off,

and I wouldn't have
believed it

unless I saw it for myself

is young kids teaching
their mom and dad

how to eat better.

So I heard there was a story
that you wanted to tell me

that you were gonna go
to a fast food restaurant.

And then, what did you
say to mom?

I told her no,
I don't want to go there

'cause they have junk food
that, like,

it's not good
for you in your body.

So where did that come from?
Because I don't know

too many six-year-olds
who would say that to their mom.

It came from my sister.

Oh, really?

Okay, so now
the truth comes out.

So do you want to tell me
what the story was, Elyce?

Yeah, I learned it in wellness.

Everybody told us that kids
wouldn't be the way to go.

Get the adult first,
then the kids will follow.

It's been the opposite.
We get the kids,

and then they bring
their parents into it.

How are we gonna grow
a healthy body?

What are we gonna do?

By eating healthy and doing
things that are healthy.

Eating all kinds
of fruit and vegetables.

Fruits and vegetables.
I like that.

Welcome, everybody.

And because the parents
and kids do it together,

they actually get
to learn together.

The parent doesn't have to be
the bad guy,

saying "Eat your broccoli..."
The kid's the one saying,

"I want to eat some broccoli,
Mom, let's do this together."

And it becomes a really
neutral environment

for parents and children
to learn about healthy eating,

and then to take
what they learned

and actually take it home
and implement it

in their families' lives.

It's because of Delani
that I eat healthier.

When she started
bringing recipes home

to make a smoothie...
Like, every single day,

"Please, Mommy,
buy the ingredients. Please."

To me, that was sort of a sign.

If my four-year-old,
at the time,

is coming home
handing me recipes

to eat healthier...
I'm gonna do it.

Who liked the fruit salad?
That fruit salad was so good.

You guys did such a great job.

I eat salad every day.

What does mom eat?

Mom?

Quinoa.

Your mom just eats quinoa,
nothing else?

She only lives on quinoa?

Your mom lives on quinoa?

If we can create a generation
of change

in East Hampton,

then other communities
can do it,

and the whole world
could do it.

We could really change

what could happen
to our children.

What's your name?

-Ethan.
-Hi, Ethan, how are you mate?

-Good.
-And you are?

-Liam.
-Liam, how are you?

Talk me through
how you got started,

because I'm sure
there's lots of moms

that would love
their six-year-old

to get excited
about the green juice.

I started with
a bit more fruit.

I'd put in, let's say,
watermelon, apple,

orange, and then
spinach and carrot.

So I'd incorporate just
a couple of vegetables in there,

which he wouldn't really
even know was happening.

And then we'd move up
from there.

So then I would take
out, let's say,

you know, the orange,

and pop in, you know,
anything from a beet root to,

you know, romaine lettuce
or something along those lines.

Stand up there.

Since adding a daily glass of juice,

to the family's diet
seven months ago,

Mum, Larissa, has lost
over 40 pounds.

But she tells me
this is only a small part

of the benefits the family
has seen

from the change.

In your note to me,

you mention that
the young fellow here...

-Me?
-has had some health issues,

-health problems.
-Yes.

Can you just talk me
through and give me

a bit of a background
as to what

the poor little fella's
had to go through?

Well, when Ethan
was 2 1/2...

He was...

We were actually
playing and running around,

and he started saying that
his ankle was really sore.

And then, one day,
he just stopped walking.

And I took him
to the hospital,

and he was diagnosed
with arthritis,

juvenile arthritis
that was in one side

of his body,
at that point.

So it was in his left
ankle, knee, and elbow.

To me, arthritis was something
that when you're older you get,

not that a kid at 2 1/2
is gonna have to deal with.

And then, over
the past four years,

it's just gotten worse.

It had spread to then
his right side,

and then, just before,
we started juicing,

it affected his neck,
and then his eyes also

developed arthritis.

Wow. So did they
put medication to him?

Did they have him
take pills?

So much...
He... He...

And he's still
On some of it.

We're trying to lower it
at the moment.

He's on something called Methotrexate.

-Yep.
-Which...

Is essentially a mild
form of chemotherapy, really.

Right.

And that's trying to put it
into remission.

And then he was on steroid
in his eyes

for a while there, which
they've taken him off since.

Which I'm so happy to say.

And he's...
Daily anti-inflammatories.

So a lot of stuff
for a little kid.

-For a six-year-old, yeah.
-Yeah, absolutely.

So he's been juicing for...

How long are we talking,
about six months or...?

About that.

And you've seen a dramatic
improvement yourself?

The first thing I noticed,
to be quite honest,

was behavior.

I noticed that his behavior
calmed down,

and, at school, he was just
a bit more receptive.

But I truly do
think that he...

Has been in less pain.

And I think that
being in less pain

will then make him
less irritable.

And so, Ethan,
do you feel better?

Since you've been juicing?

You do?

What else do you notice?

That I'm getting taller.

You're getting taller?

You think that juice is
actually making you taller?

-Really?
-Because it's all vegetables.

Oh, the vegetables
are making you strong.

I like your thinking, mate.

All right, well,
we'll cheers to that.

Perfect.

How sure are you that,

by bumping up his nutrient
intake with the veggies

and the plants by juicing,
it's had a big impact?

-How sure are you?
-100%.

100%. There is absolutely
no doubt in my mind

that I have done nothing
but brilliant things

for his health now

and his health
in the future

to incorporate
fruits and vegetables

as a daily part of their diet.

You alright there, Liam?

-Yes.
-Okay.

So another new day,
another new city.

And it's time to get
a juice or get a smoothie

or get something into my body
for breakfast.

Now, one of the ways
I use the community

is I will ping out and say,
"Hey, I'm in Adelaide.

Where can I get a juice?"

And I've done that this morning,
and Melissa,

She has come back to me and
said, "Try Goodies And Grains."

And I've tapped it in my maps,

and apparently it's
just around the corner.

So, time to load up
on some micro nutrients.

Give me veg, give me veg
Give me vegetables

They're the key
To one's longevity

He's down here.

Give me veg
Give me vegetables

Because health
Is my priority

All right, we'll go down here
and have a look.

Do you know where
goodies and grains is?

It is a bit of a maze
in here,

but I'm sure I'll find it.

Down there?
Turn to the right?

Is it in this lane?
No, it's...

Forgive me
If I seem obsessed

Give me veg, give me veg
Give me vegetables

Here it is.

Organically grown
Is always best

Give me veg, give me veg
Give me vegetables

They're the key
To one's longevity

Okay, so what's the most
popular green juice?

The glorious greens.

-Glorious greens?
-Yes.

And what's the most
popular smoothie?

-The Green Smoothie.
-Perfect.

So I'm gonna have
one of each.

-Okay.
-Same size.

-Thank you.
-Thank you very much.

-You juice at home?
-Yeah.

What do you
make at home?

What do we make at home
when we do a juice?

We make smoothies at home.

Smoothies? What do you
put in your smoothies?

Banana.

Banana?

-Chocolate.
-Chocolate?

That doesn't sound like
a smoothie to me.

That sounds like
a milkshake.

-Here's the Green Smoothie.
-All right, thank you.

Okay, and
the Glorious Greens Juice.

Thank you very much.

And do you
like green juices?

Do you like
the green ones?

-Yeah.
-Cheers, girls.

Try to put it
on your nose.

On my nose?

All right,
see you later.

Bye.

Hands on your hips.
Markers are strengthened...

Part of what I've learned
in 36 years of doing this

is what really enables people
to make sustainable changes.

Even more than being healthy,
people want to feel free

and in control.

And as soon
as I tell somebody,

"Eat this, don't eat that,
do this, don't do that,"

not only is it not helpful,
it's usually counterproductive

because they usually immediately
want to do just the opposite.

So instead of saying foods
are good or bad,

foods aren't good or bad...
Food is just food.

But some foods are clearly
healthier for you than others.

So that's different than
a moral judgment.

What matters most
is your overall way

of eating and living.

Indulging yourself
one day,

doesn't mean
you cheated or you're bad.

Just eat healthier
the next.

You didn't have time
to exercise one day,

do a little more
the next.

You don't have time
to meditate for an hour,

do it for a minute...

-You get the idea.
-Yeah.

The more you change,
the better you get.

Now, what's interesting,
it's not like we found

there's one set of
dietary recommendations

for reversing or preventing
heart disease,

another one for diabetes,
a different for prostate cancer.

It's the same
for all of these.

The more change, the more you
move in a healthy direction,

the more you improve
in every way we can measure,

-in every metric.
-So explain that to me.

What sort of change
are we talking about?

The more they change their diet,
the more they exercise,

they more they did
meditation and yoga,

the more love and intimacy
they had in their life...

-Right.
-...the more they improve.

And it comes out
of your own experience,

not because somebody
told you that.

You just think, "Oh,
when I do this, I feel good,

when I eat that,
I don't feel so good,

so maybe I'll eat more of this
and less of that."

And if I want to, you know,
indulge myself,

I'm not cheating,
which, again,

has that whole
moralistic idea.

I'm just gonna
indulge myself.

That's part of
a healthy diet, too.

Yeah. Makes sense to me.

But also, just focusing
on the behavior isn't enough.

We have to work at what's
underlying that behavior.

And for many people,
because of the breakdown

of the social networks
that used to give people

a sense of connection
and community,

there's a lot of
loneliness and depression.

That's why it's important
to look at our diet,

not just in isolation,
but as part of a larger context.

And you yourself said,
"When I'm stressed or I'm tired,

I want to reach for sugar."

For someone else,
it might be fat.

For someone else,
it might be salt.

Why are people
acting this way?

And when you
talk with them,

more often than not
they'll tell you it's because

it helps them
get through the day.

The real epidemic isn't just
obesity or heart disease

or diabetes, it's
the depression and loneliness,

and isolation.
But we can break that.

Spending the time
with our friends and family

isn't just a luxury
that we do after we've done

all the important stuff,
it is the important stuff.

Because feelings connect us,
and when we feel connected,

then it makes it easier
to make these kinds of changes

in diet and lifestyle.

All right, good advice.

How about we start over here
and any...

I'm gonna do questions.

We'll move around, so we'll
try and do it this way.

Any questions over
in this group over here?

Yes?

During the movie,
you came in touch

with the truck driver
that you...

What's his name?

-Phil.
-Phil.

Have you had any news from him
recently, how he's doing or...

Yeah, I spoke to
Phil last night, actually.

-Oh, really?
-So Phil is working

in Detroit...
He's moved up there.

He was driving trucks.
He went back to driving trucks.

So he's still struggling with
the being solo and being alone,

and that sort of tends him
to get off the rails.

But he's off medications
and... I mean,

I don't... There are people
that are gonna be

more successful
than others at this.

This is not, like,
a silver bullet.

So I'm constantly
being asked how Phil is.

People really responded
to his struggle,

to his journey,

and they rejoiced
in his success.

I felt that my journey
was equivalent

to the Forrest Gump
running across America

and people are just
coming along and following,

and Phil was the first
person to follow.

He was really the first person
who said, "You know what?

I liked what that guy did,
and I saw what he did.

I want to try that."

And, it's Phil's story

that has, inspired all
these millions of people.

Every day four or five people
see the film,

four or five people
find me on Facebook,

say what a true
inspiration I am

that I've changed
my life around,

and I just went back
to old habits.

After the 60 days,
I had some friends

helping me out
with healthy eating

and working at the "Y" there
in the town.

I was doing really well,

and so I maintained
my weight

all through the next year.

-So I'm, here with Phil Staples.
-Hi.

And, Phil and I
are in Massachusetts

for the screening of
"Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead."

As you can see,
the movie changed my life.

I still fit into the shirt
two and a half years later.

About six months after that

I met a girl and moved in
with her a couple months later.

We got married,
but wasn't ready for it.

Shouldn't have done that.
I wasn't ready for that.

I left her and had
to get divorced,

and things went
slowly downhill then.

No one to talk to.

I mean, that's kind of
what started it.

I was alone, and I hate it.

And I would try,
try and get my health back,

try and, you know, try
and juice on my own,

try and eat
healthy again.

And then something
would come along,

and head right back
to the fast food place

and eat my crap, you know?

I just wanted
to keep hiding.

I didn't want to be seen.

Well, then I called Joe.

And explained things to him.

I said,
"I'm having trouble."

And that was a big relief
just to say that,

you know,
just to get that out.

'Cause Joe... Here's Joe,
"Okay, we'll work on it.

You know,
I care about you."

And that's what
I needed to hear.

The struggles continued,

but it's what
I needed to hear.

Once Phil put up his hand
and asked for help,

I knew he needed more than
just fruits and vegetables.

So I asked Russ Kennedy
to wander up, talk to Phil,

and see what kind of changes
Phil could make.

What I want to hear more
about is your experience

with beforehand,
before you order,

before you get your
Baconator and Frosty,

what emotion do you have
going through you?

-I'm empty.
-Empty.

So you're saying you
feel kind of void,

-Yeah.
-That sadness, that emptiness?

Well, it's beyond sadness,
it's coldness.

-Yeah, it is.
-And it's, like, you know,

when the weight's gaining
and you feel that way,

you know, pardon my French,
but the thought always comes

with me, you know?

Let's go get this,
it makes me feel better.

When you say,
"It makes me feel better,"

though, that's
kind of what...

But it's just for
the briefest moments.

So it's like a sensation?

You're like, "Ahh?"

It's like having
that cigarette

or having those drugs
or that drink.

You know, it's just
for the briefest moments.

And when the food is gone,

the emotion's back.

And when the emotion's back,
the sadness comes.

When we do a case study,

and we look at Joe
and we look at Phil,

there's a lot of lessons
to be learned.

And some of the lessons
that we can learn is that

the team
that Joe's surrounded with

made a big difference.

And the lack of team
that Phil had

made a huge difference.

However, the really important
thing to take home from this

is that the environment
and the situation

that Phil ended up in
is amazingly common.

You know, he had some
emotional difficulties,

he had a divorce,
it was very difficult for him.

And he got very disconnected.

And his lapse
turned into a relapse.

So where Joe was successful...
Having the right team,

Getting the right
importance and meaning,

and having people in his life
who would call him out on it...

Phil didn't have
such a system.

The only connection
that he had to food

was the temporary
sensation of contentment.

So I feel that community,

and the system that you
make within that community,

acts as this great buffer

against difficult
emotional experiences

that we're all gonna
go through.

I mean, to go through
these things is to be human.

And it is what Joe
put in place.

He put a community
around him

that gave him
a great buffer zone,

that keeps him accountable
and it keeps him

on the high path,
on the healthy path.

Well, in our practice,

when someone first
comes to us,

we kind of treat it
like an emergency time.

Like, your house is on fire,

we got to put
this fire out first.

And then can we get
help and support

by having these helpful
and healthy relationships?

And then the third thing
we really