Negative health statistics on Native Hawaiians have not changed since the first data collected in the late forties, early fifties.  What does that tell us?  All efforts to improve the health conditions of the Native Hawaiians have not helped at all...except we know more about it.  The early initiatives to promote preventive medicine to address these "root" causes of "matters of the heart" per say, matters of the soul/spirit of a people, have failed.  The experience of Hokulea was a spiritual moment for po`e Hawaii.  Science have a lot more to learn before they will understand that there is much more to the so called "essence of man" and the important role it plays in maintaining the health of the whole.