Terry T. Shintani, M.D., J.D., M.P.H.

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The Hawaii Health Program was conceived in part as aresponse to the high rates of death from chronic diet-and-lifestyle-related diseases among the NativeHawaiians. In many parts of the Native Hawaiiancommunity, there is great poverty from a materialperspective. But the people there are also blessed witha great wealth from a spiritual and culturalperspective. The material poverty sets the stage forpoor health. If nurtured properly, spiritual andcultural strength may set the stage for the recovery ofgood health if applied properly.

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To get a better idea of the spiritual and cultural perspectiveon health, I spoke to the elders and some of them wereconsidered "Kahuna". The term kahuna literally means"keeper of the secret". Kahu means keeper and huna meanssecret. In general, it means "expert" or "professional". Butin other circles, it means "Shaman" or "Healer". Legend hasit that they could perform healing miracles.

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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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The success of the Hawaii Health Program is an example ofthe realization of some of this potential. I designed ahealth program based on these principles to reverse theobesity and chronic diseases in the

Hawaiian community. We turned peoples health around -even those with very difficult health problems. People lostweight even though they ate more food. We got people'sblood sugar, blood pressure, and cholesterol's down. Wetook many people off at least some if not all theirmedication.

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The program was so successful that it was published inscientific journals and won the highest national awardfrom the US Secretary of health. As a result of the successof the program, we were featured in Newsweek and theEncyclopedia Britannica. Because of the dramaticimprovement of the participants' health, and because ofthe ease with which most of them achieved weight loss, Ihave since received requests for the diet program from allover the world.

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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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It is called the "Hawaii Health Program" and the"HawaiiDiet™" in honor of the region where it wasborn, and also because of the spirit of the Hawaiian people.Their ancient wisdom embraces universal conceptscommon to traditional cultures from all over the worldand, can provide you with a road map to your own idealbody weight and ideal health. If enough people becomehealthy based on these principles they can become thebuilding blocks of world health.

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In doing so, you may become a part of the fulfilment of anancient prophecy. Ancient healers in Hawaii and fromelsewhere have felt a special spirituality in Hawaii. There isa healing spirit in Hawaii found in few other places. Fromthe keepers of the secret, it is told that there is an ancientprophecy that Hawaii would become a world centre forhealth. When you read the explanation of the word"Hawaii" in this book, you will see a glimpse of this in theword itself.

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I invite you to use this book to apply the timeless principlesof health embodied in traditional Hawaiian conceptsthrough your diet and lifestyle and make them your own, atleast in terms of your diet and lifestyle and strive to applythem to other aspects of your life. It is an important firststep to healing ourselves, and healing the world.

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