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2. The Hawaii Health Program was conceived in part as a
response to the high rates of death from chronic diet-
and-lifestyle-related diseases among the Native
Hawaiians. In many parts of the Native Hawaiian
community, there is great poverty from a material
perspective. But the people there are also blessed with
a great wealth from a spiritual and cultural
perspective. The material poverty sets the stage for
poor health. If nurtured properly, spiritual and
cultural strength may set the stage for the recovery of
good health if applied properly.
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4. To get a better idea of the spiritual and cultural perspective
on health, I spoke to the elders and some of them were
considered "Kahuna". The term kahuna literally means
"keeper of the secret". Kahu means keeper and huna means
secret. In general, it means "expert" or "professional". But
in other circles, it means "Shaman" or "Healer". Legend has
it that they could perform healing miracles.
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5. While the kahuna held many secrets of these miracles, in
my view, for today's health crisis, the "real secret" was in
the basic principles of the way they looked at health. I've
explained five of the principles in chapter 3 of this book
along with a sixth concept that foreshadows an ancient
prophesy of Hawaii as a World Center for health. If you
apply these principles to your life, there is great potential
for healing your body, mind and spirit.
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6. The success of the Hawaii Health Program is an example of
the realization of some of this potential. I designed a
health program based on these principles to reverse the
obesity and chronic diseases in the
Hawaiian community. We turned peoples health around -
even those with very difficult health problems. People lost
weight even though they ate more food. We got people's
blood sugar, blood pressure, and cholesterol's down. We
took many people off at least some if not all their
medication.
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7. The program was so successful that it was published in
scientific journals and won the highest national award
from the US Secretary of health. As a result of the success
of the program, we were featured in Newsweek and the
Encyclopedia Britannica. Because of the dramatic
improvement of the participants' health, and because of
the ease with which most of them achieved weight loss, I
have since received requests for the diet program from all
over the world.
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8. To be consistent with the Hawaiian spirit of aloha (which
means universal, unconditional love that embraces all
people), from the beginning, the program was intended to
include people from all cultural backgrounds and to utilize
foods and traditional cuisine from these diverse and
delicious cultural backgrounds. I have been using these
principles in private practice with people of all ethnic
groups, with the same excellent results. This is a program
that could be used and enjoyed by anybody, anywhere in
the world.
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9. It is called the "Hawaii Health Program" and the
"HawaiiDiet™" in honor of the region where it was born,
and also because of the spirit of the Hawaiian people. Their
ancient wisdom embraces universal concepts common to
traditional cultures from all over the world and, can
provide you with a road map to your own ideal body weight
and ideal health. If enough people become healthy based
on these principles they can become the building blocks of
world health.
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10. In doing so, you may become a part of the fulfilment of an
ancient prophecy. Ancient healers in Hawaii and from
elsewhere have felt a special spirituality in Hawaii. There is
a healing spirit in Hawaii found in few other places. From
the keepers of the secret, it is told that there is an ancient
prophecy that Hawaii would become a world centre for
health. When you read the explanation of the word
"Hawaii" in this book, you will see a glimpse of this in the
word itself.
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11. I invite you to use this book to apply the timeless principles
of health embodied in traditional Hawaiian concepts
through your diet and lifestyle and make them your own, at
least in terms of your diet and lifestyle and strive to apply
them to other aspects of your life. It is an important first
step to healing ourselves, and healing the world.
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