In Search of Balance Page #3

and my body just

completely changed.

The native people

have just about the worst

health in the nation.

If you look at

mortality statistics,

we were unfortunately double

the rate of heart disease,

double the rate of cancer,

double the rate of stroke,

this is in terms of mortality

for pure Hawaiians five times

the rate for diabetes.

So I actually went back

to the Bishop Museum

and started collecting

photographs of Hawaiians

in the old days

including drawings from Captain

Cook's artists back in 1778

and you saw slim

Hawaiians,

number one,

there was no sugar

and they didn't have

it back in 1778,

I mean that was

a western invention,

their main staples taro and

poi which is made from taro,

sweet potatoes, and yams,

little bit of breadfruit.

The change in the

diet, lifestyle,

eating processed food and

so much meat and so much fat

has contributed to the

obesity epidemic here,

and of course, all the diseases

that come along with it.

I remember when I was a kid,

you could count the number

of fast food places on one

hand on the whole island.

Now, there's fast-food

places on every corner.

We are faced with a society

that's already been brainwashed

to eat meat three times a day,

dairy three times a day,

taught that bean/meat

and chicken is health food,

which it is not.

We need

to educate people;

the healthiest way

is nature's way.

After all for

thousands of years,

we have been eating whole grains

and vegetables and beans

and animals were not fattened

up like they are today

or chemicalize;

basically, we are gradually

poisoning ourselves.

All you have to do is look

at the obesity maps in the US,

it's getting worse

and worse and worse.

We are just totally

been screwed over.

You've got this

junk-food industry

that's spending

billions of dollars

to get the young kids

to eat their sh*t.

By the time these poor

kids are 13, 14 years old

they got all kinds

of diseases, they got asthma,

they got attention deficit,

they got so much going on,

that is just

out of control,

and it's really,

really, really sad.

These remarkable studies in

which the progression of cancer

was reversed with the

whole food, plant-based diet;

progression of heart

disease, hypertension,

type 2 diabetes reversed

and cases even cured.

It's the complexity in the diet,

how those foods come together

and how those foods

interact with the soil

that really offers

us the real medicine.

Is there anybody who is in

the health field in this room?

Anybody working

in health at all?

Wow!

Okay, I really am alone!

How many farmers

do we have here today?

Oh, a couple of

farmers, wonderful!

Well, to the

farmers in the room,

I look at you and me

as one in the same,

we are doing the

exact same work,

we're here to keep

people healthy

and heal our communities, and

hopefully by the end of my talk,

you will all agree with

me that that is the case.

I've got the kitchen

waste compost in here,

and down inside

there we have worms,

so the worms are eating up

the kitchen compost

and we are getting

a little bit of rain now,

so it's a drop

time to water it

and everyday we collect --

we collected this one already

but we get this

incredible worm juice

and we use it for

watering our nursery

and other plants

that are in need of help.

As far as obtaining

anything in the store,

nothing comes close

to how wonderful this works

at putting nutrients

into your plants.

Look at these coconuts,

man, they are only --

they are only four years old

and I am eating coconuts also.

Yeah, this is

quite the site.

It's to have a coconut tree

where you got to get down

on your knees to harvest.

Right there, there

were 16 coconut.

Nice view. So we get to watch

the whales every winter.

Wow!

The whales park out

here, so all went along,

we get to watch the

whales breaching on here.

It's really beautiful.

They call me Ginger John,

that's what everybody

knows me by on the island.

Not only are they producing

the food that keeps us healthy

but they are protecting

the land and the soil

which is absolutely critical

to our own health.

Daphne?

Yeah. All right.

Good to meet

you too! Aloha!

This is your

property, uh-huh?

It's all of ours.

That's yours too.

Okay.

You're standing here,

life brought you here.

Enjoy!

You look fantastic,

so obviously it's --

68 years old and I work

circles around as 20 year old.

I was the vanguard

of the Hippie Movement

and somehow I got the

message to come to Hawaii

so I got here in 1967

ended up living on this beach,

the Canoe Beach on Maui

for two years with no clothes

and no money,

no blanket, nothing.

Getting disconnected

so to speak, connected.

I was laying on the beach

and thinking, you know,

you are going to die,

you better go in the town

so that you can do

something about it.

I was sitting and

about ready to fall over

and this old Hawaiian

lady came up to me

and saw that I was really

ill and just embraced me,

and asthma was drying

and I told her I was

bleeding from my lungs,

I couldn't eat,

I couldn't sleep,

and she said, well, when the

Hawaiians had lung diseases,

they ate noni and she

took me to a noni tree

because noni used

to grow everywhere,

and I started eating nonis

and I haven't stopped.

I have been eating

nonis for 50 years.

Now I am a grand-eater of noni,

I eat it every morning.

That's amazing!

So you were - you were

near death, it sounds like.

I have been near death

many, many times,

I have had just about every

disease you can think of

and I just lay down on the

ground and go through it.

I don't go to doctors.

I am sure John told

you all about taro

and how beautiful it is,

this is the only hypoallergenic

food in the world,

you can give this

to a baby, a day old.

If they have a milk allergy

to their own mother's milk,

give it to a baby and

it will sustain that.

That's the stuff.

My name is Connor Garrett,

I am from Naples, Florida.

I am living here on

Ginger John's farm.

I initially came here with

the intention to do so

and then move on, go back

to what I was doing,

but now I've become quite

involved in this lifestyle

and I don't really plan

I am going back anytime soon.

John is somebody who will

definitely blow your mind

in a lot of ways.

The tool is called the

hodad, my favorite tool.

No, he doesn't tend to farming,

it's not like gardening,

it's not anything in

a hoop house

where you're spraying

chemicals

and you get to prance

around in the flowers,

you got to rip things

out of the ground,

beat the dirt off of them.

Here we go!

Good to see you!

I am, I am glad

you could make it,

I am glad

you could make it.

This is all yours,

this amazing estate here?.

Sort of!

Sort of!

The bank owns some of it,

and my children owns some of it,

but this is

a family farm.

Can we have

a tour first?

You mean, the main

thing you want to do.

Yeah, let's have a tour

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