Happy Monday Everyone!
I hope you all had a good weekend! It was pretty rainy and cold this weekend in Seattle, but I still got a good workout (and a few scratches) picking blackberries by my sister's house on Saturday. There is nothing that I love better than fresh fruit straight from the plant, and if you can get a good workout in the process, it's even better.
Fueled by my fruit-filled adventure, I decided to watch a movie that has been on my Netflix queue forever, Fat Sick and Nearly Dead.
The movie is a documentary about an Australian man who goes on a 60 day Juice Fast and loses a ton of weight, but more than just losing weight, his health drastically improves as well. Along the way, he inspires another gentleman in a similar health condition to do the same thing and he also loses almost half of his body weight in less than 6 months.
While I parts of this movie highly relatable, and a lot of it incredibly inspiring, there are things that you need when your body loses weight that you really aren't getting that much of when you are drinking just fruit and vegetable juice.
When your body loses weight, it essentially runs off of the fat that it has already built up on your body, so your body is getting calories, fat, etc. What your body really isn't getting much of when you lose weight (from just eating itself) is protein. Protein isn't prevalent in high amounts in fruits and vegetables. Don't get me wrong, there are some fruits and veggies that do have protein in them. For example, Kale has 0.7 grams of protein per cup. That is, however, not a whole lot of protein.
Your body is getting a lot of other things from fruit and vegetables that are really great, like vitamins and "micronutrients" as the film calls them. But another thing that fruits and veggies are somewhat high in is sugar. It's not bad sugar because it's naturally occurring sugar, but it is still sugar.
I recommend the film, simply because it will show you the effect that eating healthy has on your body. Another film that I highly recommend is Food Inc.
Food Inc is a great documentary about the food industry in America and just what it processed foods, and agricultural business has done to our natural resources. It is an extremely scary movie. Not in a horror movie kind of way, but in a "What am I eating?!" kind of way. It will make you take a serious look at just the kind of foods you are putting in to your body.
Happy Screening!
Jenelle
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