Anyone heard of Joe Cross "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead"?

[okitoki]

While on way to work this morning, heard on 94.5 some Aussie guy name Joe Cross went to US for 60 days and filmed a documentary about a Vegan/Fast Juice thing... and sort of did a Jaime Oliver thing about learning why fat Americans are fat and teaching them the benefits of a Juice diet... or an opposite of Supersize Me.

Anyone seen this documentary? (or is it just a glorified infomercial? )

Would have thought a juice only/supplemented diet would be just a fad diet (water loss and weight come back once eating normal) or has anyone tried such diet? did a quick google and seeing lots of good results, but yet skeptical...

[r0gue]

He was doing the rounds on the daytime tv shows etc.
He owns the juice company that he was using to supposedly lose the weight with.
Seemed a load of crap to me, and he was just self promoting his wares.

[okitoki]

He owns the juice company that he was using to supposedly lose the weight with.

Ah... during the radio interview, that bit of info wasnt mentioned...

[Rhino]

Juice diet.

That tickles me.

[Screamin TE]

I think the lemon detox diet has merit. Once you are done with that, make sure you only cook food in snake oil....

[fractoid]

Twinkie diet all the way.

Eat fewer calories than you burn and you'll lose weight. Everything else is just a distraction.

[NanoBear]

We were selling the DVD in the F&V section at Woolies.
Juice only diet sounds a little too close to lemon detox to me (recently voted the worst/most dangerous fad diet by a 'panel of experts' in the news)

I think it can be done successfully with the right additives (and not just juices, have to have some solids I think). But like anything designed to cut weight fast, it's extremely likely that it will come back just as fast.