"Oh, my god." "I can't do it." "People who are healthy, they eat more food with sun in it and less food without sun." "People who aren't healthy, it's the reverse." "And if you eat too much food made by people in white coats, you know what happens?" "You end up seeing people in white coats." "I think that a lot of what we do is actually band-aid treatment." "And that we're actually approaching health in what i would call the most unhealthy way." "One person is diagnosed every seven minutes of diabetes." "This is only australia." "47 percent of the adult population and one in four kids under 15 are either overweight or obese." "When you just rattle stats off like this, it doesn't feel real." "But i want you to really take this in, 'cause you live on the same planet as these people." "You live on the same street." "It's your mom, it's your dad, it's your brother, it's your kids." "How have we, in the world today, arrived at such an obese society?" "An overfed, undernourished society." "The foods we have today do not have the nutrition that they once had." "Our life has gotten so fast paced and so sedentary, because of the computers and because of the way we run our lives today" "that we now don't act and don't get out there and move." "We don't do the things we used to do, and we don't have the foods we used to have." "As a result of it, we're now in a nation that's obese and undernourished." "And what's interesting is, there's a psychology of that." "And it doesn't have to be that way, we've chosen that way." "Because we want immediate gratification instead of long-term lifestyle." "And long-term lifestyle gives us our life back and gives us our body back." "And immediate gratification can cost us our health." " Come on, let's go!" "Good job!" "Good job!" "Love it!" "All right." "Good job, buddy." " Fives." "Hey, buddy." "Do you want to fix your toast up?" " Yeah." " You guys all right, aren't ya?" "Fix up what you want?" "Yep." " I'll pour these 'cause it's going to be too hot." "Well, for my family, especially as a single parent, it really comes down to a budget." "I'm shopping more for a budget to fill a belly as opposed to shopping for health." "I don't know." "What's it called when..." "you wanna watch... i'll say, "you guys have need look after yourself today 'cause i've got all this stuff to do."" "And liam will have three packets of noodles on his own, and it... when you read what's on the back of the pack" "it's all m.s.g., and all different numbers and poison and whatever so... it's really a supervision factor," "trying to ensure that i change my shopping, i've still got to shop within a budget," "but i've also got to shop so that it's healthy, and that's where..." "that's the challenge." "You know?" "I mean, it's stuff like this." "You can't beat good ole white wonderbread." "You know, it's like a dollar a loaf, makes great toast, but at the end of the day," "i'm probably killing my kids by feeding them this." " There's your milos." " Thank you." "You're welcome, buddy." "Many people are not eating wisely, they're not eating whole foods," "and they're accustomed for immediate gratification, and they're concentrating their diet on fats and sugars and salts... all the addictive compounds." "We tend to think of addictive compounds in terms of drugs, and we tend to think of it in terms of alcohol," "but we don't realize that one of the biggest addictors in our world today is sugar, salt and fat." "And these are rampant in our society and they became the, kind of the standard people have been... who are uneducated about food and diet it becomes their diet." "So getting back to how well do i eat." "I eat pretty good, doc." "People don't have a clue what they're putting in them that's actually killing them." "It's the stuff you don't know you're putting in you that's killing you." "Would you feed your children - synthetic hormones?" "Yes, no?" "No?" "Piperonyl, lice-treatment chemical?" "I mean, in their food?" "Next one." "Propylene glycol, used in antifreeze?" "Probably not." "Amyl acetate, used as oil-paint solvent." "Next one." "Ethyl acetate, used in leather-cleaning products." "Probably not." "Next one." "Aldehyde c7, used in dyes, plastics and rubber." "How are we doing so far?" "Chances are you already have." "What is it?" "Ice cream." "In the world today, a lot of people have not looked up the etymologies and the root phonemes of words." "For instance, the word "diet" comes from the word "deity,"" "which means "that which leads to good."" "When you're eating and drinking things that leads to the good, meaning health and functional capacities, then that's the correct diet." "But in today's world, young people are getting drinks and foods and lollies and treats that have nothing to do with nutrition that is good." "The prefix "nut" on "nutrition" comes from the latin nux, which means light." "Nutrition means "process of light."" "Too many of the foods these kids are getting today are dark, they're darkness to the body." "They're not light." "And so what's happening, a lot of kids are starting to experience diseases that usually happens to adults" "later on in the 50s, 60s, 70s, as they become deficient, and sometimes toxicity builds up over the decades, little kids are experiencing that." "We've got to get back to that - diet." "And this isn't some special ice cream, like the toxic brand," " this is..." "this is the vast majority." "Next one." "What treat is this?" " Soft-serve ice cream?" "Any other guesses?" "Some people no?" "The key word here is "treat."" " Chicken." " Chicken nuggets." "It's chicken nuggets." "So how did we arrive at a place where we treat our children by putting toxic chemicals in them?" "And some of you are a bit squirmy because you're the... the grandma or grandpa and the grandkids come over" ""here, have some more." "Have some more ice cream and chocolate topping,"" "and all this stuff." "But it's what our parents did for us, right?" "Maybe they were trying to kill us, i don't know." " But it's-- it's culture." "It's what's happened." "It's what our parents did and our grandparents did." "Today in australia, 20 to 25 percent of children are considered overweight or obese." "Does that just blow your mind?" "One in four kids are overweight or obese." "Where do you think we're gonna be 10, 20, 30 years from now?" "In 200 meters, go right at the roundabout, third exit." " You know you've put weight on, right?" " Yeah." "And it makes you feel unhealthy, right?" "Yeah." "What's the real impact to you though?" "How do you really feel about it?" "Like, what's it really made you feel?" "I mean, i know carl gives you a tough time." " Besides that... truthfully, i doesn't really make me feel any different." " Right." " Daddy." " Hang on, teags." " I would like to lose it." " Yeah, what do you think the benefits would be?" " Um, well, obviously i'd lose weight." " Yeah." " I'd be healthy." "Um, i would be able to do much more active things." " Yeah." " Um... yeah." " Do you think it'll be a good solution to go down to the coast and sort of work with uncle anthony and auntie kate?" " Yeah." " Yeah?" " It'd be good." "All right, so you guys know what to do when you get home." "Darling, you need to unpack your stuff for camp, whatever's dirty goes into the laundry straight away." "Here's your water bottle." "Full?" "My gosh." "I actually filled it up today." " Ok, put that straight in her room." "That can go in her room." "And this'll go in the laundry." " Drop four slices in the toaster." " Yeah?" "The owner's wife is coming down." "So you're having some?" " No, i'm fine, mate." "I'll have a cup of tea and then something to eat." "No, no, no, just... no xbox now." "You can watch cartoons." "All right?" "For now, and that's it." "Liam's 80 kilos, and i don't know how to help him." "To see what's happened over the past few years" " and for us to know what we know." " Mm-hmm." " I don't want to watch that get any worse." " Mm, yeah." "Well, as i said, like i, i'm prepared to do whatever it takes to help him." "And if it means he comes down here, um... then so be it." " You wouldn't miss me." " I would." " I would miss you." "It would be a great opportunity to get healthy." " All right, for some weeks now, we've been deliberating about how we can help liam with his health challenge." "Uh, we had a quite in-depth discussion this evening and what really hit home for us was when he said himself," ""you know, if i don't do something about this, i'm gonna die."" "And so that's real for him." "He's staying here for the first, uh, night tonight." "As i came to record this, i heard this wild animal-like noise out of his room, and it was his snoring." "So clearly it is time to take action." "The things that we're all gonna commit to is drinking more water, eating more of a plant-based nutrition," "moving more, getting more oxygen into the body." "Uh, it'll be for three months." "He will move schools." "You know, it's not gonna be easy but we're committed to it, and let's see what tomorrow brings." " Oh, in case you didn't know, i'm uncle anthony." " Are you sure you're all right with this?" " Yeah, i'm sure." " Yeah?" "I mean, three months isn't long." "I think everyone's, you know, everyone's pulling together to help you anyway." " You know that, don't you?" " Yeah." " Like i'm not kicking you out of home or anything like that." "It's just... i just want to help you, mate." "You know?" "And i'm really proud that you were able to make that decision." " Behave, all right?" " Yeah." " I'll put some credit on your phone." " Ok." " So that you can call me." " Yep." " All right, champ." "Love you, son." " I love you, too." " All right, buddy." "Bye." " Bye." " Help out, won't you?" "Make sure you help auntie kate." " Yeah, i will." "Don't worry." " Yeah." " Keep your room tidy, too." " Yes." " All right, buddy." "I'll see you later." " Ok." " Ok, mate." "Bye!" " Bye!" " Ok, tiger." "See ya." " See ya." " As you know, my name is liam, and, uh... i just woke up, and the time right now is 6:27." "And i think it's about to go to 6:28." "And, um, yeah, i'm pretty tired." "I had a bit of a late night last night." "But i hope i'm ok today." "I'm amazed at how many people, while they're having lunch, they're already thinking about what they're gonna do at dinner." "And they're basically living from food to food instead of living their life" "and using food to sustain what's inspiring to them." "Being overweight, we know is unhealthy." "We get excess fat deposited in all of our internal organs." "I've assisted in some surgery when i was younger and i was amazed that when they would actually open up someone who was overweight," "you'd actually see the fat deposited on their liver, the fat deposited around their heart." "When you're fat on the outside, you're also fat on the inside." "I'm certainly no picture of health." "I look like i've swallowed a sheep." "Not only am i overweight, i'm also sick." "For the past nine years, i've been taking pills night and day just to get by." "But as of today, i'm saying enough is enough." "Good day." "My name is joe cross, and i'm an australian, in case you couldn't work that out from the accent." "I've just arrived in the united states." "I'm not going to eat any of your food." "I've come here to fast for 60 days." "All i'm gonna do is drink juice, green juice, 60 days, 60 nights." " Well, it's pretty exciting." "What do you think about meeting joe?" " Like, wow." "I just cannot believe i'm actually going to meet him." " I can't believe it either." " How are you?" "Everything good, mate?" " All right." " You look a little tan." "Nice shirt, eh?" "Are you excited?" "I call fat "extra energy." I don't call it fat." "'Cause that's all it is is energy stored up waiting to be used." "But what you've done is you've stored up ready for a famine." "Like there's a desert island we're going to and there won't be any food for about six months" "and you've brought breakfast, lunch and dinner and you've tucked it under your skin" " waiting for it to be used." " Yeah." " So now what we've got to do is think about you're about to use up all those spaghetti bolognese meals," " all those pizzas, all those burgers." " Hmm." " All those french fries, "chips," what we call them out here." " Hmm." " You've got to use them up now because you've got them stored, waiting to be used." " Yep." " Does that make sense?" " Yeah, it does." " How bad do you want it?" "If i ask you out of a hundred, how bad do you want to do this?" " About 95." " Ninety-five's good, mate." "I can live with that." " Ok." " All right." "What are you gonna do when it's over?" " Um, i don't know." "I haven't really made any plans yet." " Right." "You don't know?" " No." " Xbox?" " Um, nah." " Nah?" "Maybe some soccer?" " Maybe." " Amazing day today." "Joe cross spent a bunch of time with liam." "For liam it was like he's meeting a movie star." "He was just in awe." "And what a great opportunity for liam to spend some time with someone who's just been through the process that he's about to embark on." "So, yeah, great times." " Hey, buddy." "It's late." "Time to get up, buddy." " Get up, mate." "Today, i think was a pretty hard morning for liam." "He got woken up by cameras, which i don't think would be easy for anybody." "And then, you know, today wasn't exactly what he would call fun, and so, i think when he's out walking and exercising," "when he feels like he's, you know, pushing himself hard, he just doesn't like that at all." "And i think even just walking up our stairs, he's out of breath." "So that was really pushing him out of his comfort zone." "And i think being in a new environment, he knows us, but it's a, you know, it's a different environment." "He's away from his familiar surroundings and family, his familiar food as well," "and, um, you know, at a new school, there's a lot of things that he's adapting to, so i'm not..." "i'm not too worried, but there's certainly, i've had moments where i think" ""aw, you know, have we done the right thing?"" "Um, you know, and he wants it, he wants this change, but at the same time, i can see inside, it's just so much easier to want to stop as well." " Oh, my god." "I can't take... ow." " Does it have to be..." " that pole." " Does it have to be up to the pole?" " Yeah, to the pole." "You got it, mate." "Good job." " Dude." " Mate, how'd that feel?" " Terrible." " Mate, you did so unreal." "That's what it's gonna take to get all over this, you know?" "It's that little bit of hurt." "You proud of yourself?" "No?" "Do you think you'd be able do that today?" " No." " No, so you've done it, right?" "Good job, mate." " First day of exercise today for liam." "I think it was a real shock to the system to him." "Uh, typically when he comes and visits us at the gold coast, it's all about fun and the beach but... today, yeah, it really hit home." "Again, he did it, a bit of complaining but we're on our way." "The world health organization has put out a statement saying that at current rates by 2030," "one billion people in the world will be considered obese." " When i started this, what i really wanted to lose out of all this... hold on." "All these three months... was this." "Now, yeah, not really that good." "Now, i have lost a little bit of weight since then but, yeah, as you can see, still got a fair bit there." "So yell it out." "Why do you eat?" " Fuel the body." " Nourish." " Nourish." "Energy to get through the day." " Social aspects." " Social." " Boredom." " Boredom." " Comfort." " Comfort." " Breast feed." " Breast feed." "Was that a man who said that?" "Keep going." " Cravings." " Cravings." "What else?" " Habit." " Habit." " Socializing." " Socializing." "Yeah, bring it up if you could, katie." "So i already have "pleasure, habit, convenience."" "Sometimes we just grab it because it's there." ""Fat loss, muscle gain, emotional."" "Who eats emotionally?" "If your hand's not up, you lie about other things as well." " Boredom, taste?" "Who just loves the taste of certain foods?" "Big time." "So in some cultures you eat just because," ""that's what dad ate." "That's what grandpa ate."" "When you go around and you have those gatherings, that's just what you eat, right?" ""Energy, performance." And there's a whole bunch of others." "Unless you understand the why... in other words, 80 percent of the game is psychology." "So i want you to take just 30 seconds now and write down the top three reasons." "And think of a day." "Think of you going through a day." "You go, "right, for breakfast, what do i eat?"" "Well, just 'cause i'm hungry." "But then the next thing that you put in, why do you put it in?" ""Ah, i'm bored." "'Cause i'm convenient." "It's there."" "Ready, go." "What's your favorite thing to eat?" " Well, that's a bit of a hard question 'cause there's a lot of things." " Well, there's gotta be something you love the most." "Like if i said you couldn't have this for the rest of your life, what would be the one you'd be most upset about me saying?" " Probably spaghetti bolognese." " Spaghetti bolognese." "I love spaghetti bolognese, too." "It's good." " Yeah." " So there are some foods which i like to think about being closer to the sun, like where the energy comes from, which is the stars, and that food is made by mother nature." "Then at the other end of the spectrum, we've got the other food which is made by people in white coats," "by scientists and food people and manufacturing, and it's all packaged stuff." "It doesn't grow on trees." "I mean, i've never seen a meat pie growing on a tree, have you?" " No." " Right, so... but you've apples grow on trees, you've seen oranges, you've seen bananas?" " Yep." " Right, so who makes them?" " Mother nature." " Mother nature, right." "So i say that the stuff made by mother nature, that's closer to the sun because the sun was directly involved in manufacturing that, right?" "So now we go down to the other end, which is your spaghetti bolognese you love very much." "Well, spaghetti, that doesn't grow out of the ground." " No, it doesn't." " No, someone makes that." "Now, they make that indoors, just to use the analogy, the sun, it's still sun food because the flour, the wheat," "whatever they made the pasta out of came from the sun, but they cooked it, they stripped it, they changed it," " they beat it up." " Yeah." " Which means a lot of the good energy that was harnessed down here in our plant world has been released and gone somewhere else." " Yeah." " So in order for you to be healthy, you've got to have more of this type of food, than this type of food." "Does that make sense?" " Yes, it does." " 'Cause you've got to get more sun into your body." "All these people that love going down to the beach here and lying down and getting sunburned and getting brown," "getting a nice tan, but what they don't realize is that they've gotta put the sun inside their body as well." " Is it good?" " Mm-hmm." " Good." " We need food because food creates the basic energy that our body needs to be able to function well." "If we put good, healthy food into our bodies, it's gonna function better." "If we eat processed food, if we eat food that's full of sugar and unhealthy fats and has low nourishment levels, then that's gonna create a stress on our body." "And our body is fantastic at being able to adapt for a certain amount of time, but there comes a point where our bodies actually start to suffer because of what we've put in, and we're gonna have lower energy levels," "we're gonna feel less vital, we're more susceptible to disease, in every way we're gonna be affected by what it is that we've been eating." "It's more convenient for me to duck to the supermarket and buy certain products for 15, 20 bucks, and whip up a quick meal." "You know, it might be macaroni and cheese, or whatever." "I can get a tray of lasagna from the supermarket for $10, and get six meals out of that." "You know, and vegetables, it may not be fresh vegetables." "If i'm in a hurry, it's gonna be a canned option or a frozen option." "And with that i can knock out a cheap meal." "It's fast and it's budget driven." "It's got nothing to do with health." "Ok." "Hello." "How are you?" " How tall are you?" " I don't know." "So today, liam came in and had his overall wellness evaluated." "We looked at his spine and nervous system." "Fifty percent of liam's body weight is actually fat." " And then just turning and facing away from me." "So we're looking for something in this area here on the x-rays, and then we'll have the analysis that we've done." "Good job, mate." "You can put your shirt back on." "There are a number of concerning things on his x-rays, what we call subluxations that put stress on the spinal cord onto the nervous system" "and ultimately decreases the body's ability to heal and to function as best it could." "So i look at where liam is at emotionally with his health, and... today was both concerning but also quite productive" "in that i think there's a lot of ways that we can help him... to heal and to function better." "And just to actually, um, allow his body to be at 100 percent." "We think that because we walk from the house to the car, we went for a walk." "Or we walk around indoors all day long that we have walked." "No, you have not." "You are not nourished in that process." "You have to move your body through time and space, distance, outside." "All right, buddy." " Straight into it now." "Exercising and increasing our heart rate is definitely good for us." "One of the fantastic things about the human body is its ability to adapt." "So when we exercise and when we put an appropriate level of stress on our heart and on our muscles," "then they begin to function more effectively, they adapt to the stress, and our heart then has a better ability" "to pump our blood and our oxygen through our bodies, our muscles become stronger, our joints become healthier," "and it just has a positive effect in all areas of our lives." " Three, two, one." "And good." "Last 10 seconds, flash!" "Let's go now!" "Harder." "That's it." "Awesome, awesome." "Last one." "Three, two, one." "We're done." "All right, mate." "Let's roll." "Ugh!" " That's it." "Put it on." "Yep." " Quick as you can." "You're doing good, mate." " Whoo." "Whoo." " Lead the way." "That's it." "Let's go." "Animals play all the time, even adult animals." "The four-legged ones sometimes stand on their hind legs and push each other with their top legs." "They're always playing, they're moving, they're dancing, birds keep doing it." "Little children naturally play 24 hours a day, except when they fall asleep." "All they wanna do is get up and move and play, go outside, jump on the trampoline, run along the beach," "and it's fabulous." "That's the healthiest thing they can be involved in." " Oh, now that's..." " but in the modern world is to get on a computer today and play games," "doing minecraft and halo and xbox and all of the games." "And thankfully, it does capture their imaginations." "The downside is that they're not moving." "They're not dancing, they're not playing, they're not jumping, they're not interacting, that's the down side." " Thanks, tegan." "Good thing you told me to go down that cave." "When i look around at the number of hours children spend on hand-held devices these days," "it's literally attached, it's an extension of their body." "And it puts them into a position with their posture where their head is forward." "And if you're repeatedly in that position, it produces this forward head posture." "And research shows that stretches the spinal cord five to seven centimeters and causes problems, pathological tension in the body." "The challenge is that every inch the head goes forward, it literally puts more pressure through the spine," "and it deteriorates at a more rapid rate." "That's going to affect the person's overall being, not just physically but emotionally as well" "as where those organs are receiving those nerve endings." "One of the things that i often hear about video games is that there is a positive side to them, which i agree with," "in that they create new skills and abilities, but i think the really important thing is to just keep it in balance." "If someone is playing half an hour of video games a day, or whatever, that's one thing," "but when we get kids who are playing six or eight hours every day, who are up till 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning," "who are tired at school because of the fact that they were-- they didn't get enough sleep because they were playing some" "game or other, then we actually start to see the really dark side of video games." " You guys, you've been on this for hours now." "Ok?" "Off." " We'll start a..." " i want youse outside." "You need to go and play." " Yep." " There's lots of benefits to video games, but to do video games at the expense of other fulfilling things, is to become addicted to the video games and not having the other aspects of life." "And life is going to require all things." "You're going to have to be able to socialize." "There are seven areas of life." "We have spiritual quest, we have mind-development quest, we have vocational quest, we have financial quest," "we have family quest, we have social quest and we have physical health and well-being." "In order to have empowerment in all areas of life, it's wise to engage in all areas of life throughout your life." " Gloves on." "That's it." "Push in." "Push, push, push, push." "Good." "Other one." "Push hard through." "Good." "All right." "Jump on there." "So, feet leave the floor." "Let's start with a warm-up, just 50 jumps." "And then just change into some running, hands up." "That's it." "Good, mate, nice and focused." "Read the words." "Good, mate." "Five, four, three, two, one." "And step off." "Good, arms out to the side." "And little circles forward." "That's it, a little bit faster." "Good, just step forwards a little bit." "Make the circles wider." "Wider, that's it." "Wider, keep your head up, good posture." "All the way." "Nice and open now." "Good, and stop, go back the other way... the greatest thing parents can do is by teach through exemplification." "Children have mirror neurons, they learn "monkey see, monkey do."" "And if they see the parents inspired by their life, engaged in their life, eating wisely, living wisely," "that's the wisest things that parents can do." "They do it by exemplification." " Good." "Left, right." "Good, no more smiling." "Left, right." " Good." "Left, right." "Left, right, left." " Ugh!" " Left, right, left." "Good." "Left, right, left." "Good, 10." " What?" " 10." "Go." "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten." "Good." "Left, left, right." "There's a beautiful african proverb which is that "it takes a village to raise a child."" "And i think there's so much for us to learn from this." "A child gets an incredible amount of influence from their parents, but also the whole village can" "have such a great influence on a child just by being there, creating a sense of security, sharing stories, and being a backup in so many ways." " Nice and tight, bend at the knees, that's it, faster, faster, rip it up, rip it." "That's it, good." " Ow!" " Keep going, keep going." "Again, left, right, left." "Go." "Exercise can be done in so many different ways, and it also creates a fantastic opportunity to interact with other people." "When people train together in a group, when they play team sports," "when they do something with someone that they are close to or love then exercise is a great way of building a relationship and increasing the bond" "and the connection between individuals and groups of people." " Harder." "And just not as fast, just a bit harder." "Just-- ok?" " Good, keep going." " Good, mate." "Good, excellent." "Keep going." "Ow!" " When i'm making exercise fun and keeping it short and sharp as well, it makes it more sustainable as a family" "so it might be all the kids getting home from school and everyone going out for a bike ride before they get stuck into their homework" "or making your weekend a trip to a park or a family bike ride." "It is fun, then." "You know, they're out there and they're connecting as a family." "It's not connecting around the table to eat and it's not connecting around the tv to watch a show." "And i think that's gonna create a deeper relationship as a family, too, which is really important." " About two years ago in october sometime my mom got a brain tumor, and she passed away." "And, yeah, at home we just light a candle for her every sa" "i can't remember the date it was that she died, but it was sometime in october." "I think it was on saturday." "As a medical student, i spent three years studying all about the physical side of the human body." "And i was amazed and i have to say delighted to discover the incredible complexity of how all the different parts interact" "and the wonder of this body that we have." "But then once i became a doctor, i started to realize that as important is a person's emotional state." "And what's going on in their psyche." "And that these two things really interact to create a person." "So we need to look at not only their physical state, but we need to look at their emotional state," "and then we really start to see the connection between these two parts of a person." " She was such an amazing woman, just look at her." "She had a beautiful smile and a beautiful heart." "And she left a beautiful family." "And i just... i want to do her proud, and i know that we will." "And i just admire liam for what he's doing and just, he's amazing." "I've been studying the mind-body relationship and lecturing about that for literally 40 years." "I even wrote a textbook on over a thousand health conditions and the psychological components underlying them." "It would be hard to convince me that there's not psychology in each condition we have." "And i know that in medicine, in allopathic medicine, there is a belief that there are genetic diseases and there are defects" "and there are protein problems and these type of things, and i don't question that." "I am fully aware of those researches and i'm fully aware of those approaches." "But i've yet to see a condition inside the human being that doesn't have a psychological component." " And the cool thing about the spring roll paper, if you look at this, it's just got some coconut oil and some flour..." " ok." " ...and some salt so it's really simple." " Yep." "Oh." " It's see-through." " So tonight was really a great night." "We had a lot of fun in the kitchen, and liam helped me prepare dinner." "And he just really loved getting hands-on and learning about the food and just getting involved which was really great." "Um, it was interesting though, he really opened up and reflected that he loves dinnertime more," "not so much because it's about the food, but also because it's a time that his family would all come together." "And often he would go back for seconds or sometimes more but that was because he wanted to make that time last longer." " And then we had to walk up and down the hill two times." " The hill." "How you going with that hill?" "Terrible" "when i hear the statement that we're being overfed and undernourished, i definitely relate to that." "I think there's so much happening now where we feel like we have to have everything, we have to have the latest gadgets and we have to have the best clothes, and we have to have so much food." "And i actually don't think that's what brings true happiness and health." "I think that being healthy is much more than just a physical thing." "I think it really ties into are we doing what we love with our lives, do we have good relationships?" "Do we feel positive about the future?" "When people are doing what they love, and when people are with people that they love and are feeling loved," "that is actual nourishment." "It's about nourishment of the soul, and if we really focus on nourishment of the soul, and what a person really needs at a deeper level," "that for me will create true health and that will create true happiness." "Too many people get up in the morning, see." "They're in a hurry, they got to get to work." "They look at each other and go "see you later, bye-bye."" "Where was the embrace?" "Where was the holding?" "Where were the hands on the face looking at each other's eyes and feeding and nourishing each other?" "With that kind of a living ordinance of love and connection and bonding?" " So i was just out at lunch before and just saw this family sitting there" "and one of them's on a phone, another one is on a video game" "and another one is playing on an ipad." "And it just..." "it just made me sad." "There's so much disconnect out there in today's world and one of the things we've made it" "to be a really big priority for our family is that family connection time." "And so at the end of every day at our meal time, regardless of who's sitting at our table, we just ask one simple question," "and it tells us so much about our friends or our family who are with us." "And that is "what are you grateful for?"" " Do you think that you have room for dessert?" "Or no?" " Of course, who doesn't?" "Never underestimate the nourishment value of good relationships." "When people are spending time with people who love them, and that they love, that actually nourishes them on a much deeper level." "And when that's not present in their lives, then they look for it in other areas," "whether it's food or drugs, alcohol, various forms of addictions, all of these add up to an attempt to replace something" "that could so easily be there naturally." " Whoo!" " Liam's having his first time on a motorbike." "Hey, dude!" "Doing good!" "Whoo-hoo!" "And my heart's just singing right now." "Like when we're at home, and i think we've got the ability to have" "a tv." "And video games and just sit around and do nothing, kids will gravitate to that." "But when you've got this kind of stuff when they can just get out and do their thing, like this is what life's all about." "And exploring and having fun and just learning new things." "Our boy just caught a frog just before, and i think that's pretty cool." "Today's been a really good day." "We had a campfire last night, and the boys camped out as well." "And liam's just having a good time." "Look at this." "Whoo-hoo!" " Yo!" "Well, i just came up into my room, watched a couple of youtube videos." "And when i looked at the clock, which is right there, right beside my bed, it was 10:00." "So then i went to bed, and i was like, and when i was watching a youtube video and i kept on going cross-eyed, you know that feeling?" "You're cross-eyed while you're focusing on something, and you're really tired." "Yeah, i was like this." " I, i..." " would you like some more...?" " Nuggets?" "Nuggets?" "So we're building a garden." " Ok." " Show me where you want it." "Come." "You lead the way." " You were thinking here?" " Yeah, around here." " Ok, that's a good spot." "So we've got the ocean there, so we've got this there." "We've got all the sun here to capture... yeah, it'll be good." " Are you ready?" " Yeah." " We do it together, huh?" "Let's see if we can do a veggie garden in an hour." "We had a really good day today." "It was exciting." "We had remy come around, and he helped us put a veggie garden in the backyard." "It was really good to see liam out there and getting involved, and he was shoveling the dirt and planting the little seeds" "as well as some of the little seedlings." "And i think for him to have some responsibility, to have something that actually depends on him will be really good." "I think it's gonna be great, and our boys loved it as well." "I think for liam to have something that he's responsible for and to have some accountability as well" "and to kind of see something grow from him taking care of it will be really, really cool." "So it was a good morning, a really good day." " If you pick up the watering can every morning, fill it with water, and just give it a nice watering." "7:30 before school, water it in." " Yeah." "Thank you." " Thank you." " All the best." "See ya!" " Thank you." " I think one of the healthiest things that we can do, for ourselves and the generations that are just coming up," "is to get them involved in planting and growing and harvesting foods from their own garden," "from the fruit trees, from the vineyard that you have right there, where you live, getting into the plot of ground, and being able to experience." "These kids actually watching the process and then picking their own tomatoes, biting into it, what a thrill." "Has everyone seen that picture, like the davinci, the anatomical structure?" "So our body is designed on exact mathematical geometries, and every single plant, whole-plant food, is designed... just say in our cell there's a star, for example," "there's exact plant whole foods that are designed to go into that slot." "Now if we're taking things that don't fit in there, and we're putting it into our body, where does it go?" "Usually storage." "And so our body will actually produce storage units, which are called..." " fat." " Fat cells, where you just go..." "your cells are going, "hello, we can't use this."" "So there's this whole thing called "the doctrine of signatures,"" "and if you start to look at foods and start to realize there's parts of our body that look like certain foods," "and just could it be possible that that's what we're supposed to eat to help that part of our body?" "So every cell, tissue, organ, anatomical structure, physiological function has a replicate whole food that we should be putting in to feed those cells." " If you have any kind of a problem with the heart, with the arteries, with the blood," "if you want to get to the root of the beat of the heart, eat beetroot, because they have found that's exactly what it targets," "it'll help to get rid of arrhythmias, palpitations, all kinds of things." "That's why it's called the "beet" to this day, and most people don't know that." "Like, walnuts, they look like the brain, they've got left and right hemispheres, there are wrinkles on top, the shell is just like the cranial cap." "You eat walnuts, you eat pecans, macadamias, hazelnuts, any of those things, tested it at cornell medical and other places," "they know it's true, if you eat a lot of nuts, it's gonna target that function and lift it." "Even carrots, what a brilliant food." "They've known for thousands of years that carrots improve eye vision, but the problem is you have to eat them," "and for a lot of people, that's tough to eat real food." "You're gonna make 200 decisions a day on what you put in your body foodwise." "200 is what you'll make." "People don't realize that, but we make 200 decisions every day." "For breakfast, am i gonna have milk?" "Am i gonna have toast?" "Am i gonna have vegemite, peanut butter?" "You make all these yes-no, yes-no decisions about what you're gonna eat." "You go into a restaurant, you got like 50 choices, just in one restaurant." "So you've got all these choices, constantly asking yourself" ""should i have this, should i have that?"" "Go and look around the world, most people struggle with that." "I did, still do." "So the easiest tip i can give you on your journey is to start now, is to think about the food that's closer to the sun... fruit, vegetables, nuts, beans, seeds, these sorts of foods." "They're holding in the energy from the sun." "They're harnessing what i call captured sunlight." "Foods that are down here, the boxes and the cardboard boxes you get in the supermarket?" "They're energy but they don't have a lot of nutrition in there." "They don't have a lot of powerful nutrients to help you fight off disease, feel better, look at the world happier." "Yum." "A lot of people think when i say we need to eat whole foods, they think i mean eat a whole doughnut." "There's a difference in foods." "You walk into most grocery stores or markets where you can buy things, they'll have over a half a million packaged, canned, bottled items with pictures of food," "but there's no nourishment or very little and all kinds of chemical additives, colorings, flavorings, everything else." "And we just pig out on it." "I sort of look at some of the food that we're eating as almost like cigarettes in terms of we really shouldn't be eating it." "We know it's bad for us, there's plenty of evidence to show it's bad for us, and yet it's been put in the food that we eat" "and that we feed our children every day." "One of the things that i find is that a lot of us don't actually know how to eat healthy and what is good for us." "And what i say is "if it's in a packet, if it's in a can, then it's probably not good for you."" "And the more that we can eat that's fresh, that's grown locally, even better if we grow it ourselves," "that's what we really wanna be doing as much as possible." " Let's see what we can find today." "There's always some yummy fruit in here." "Might get some grapes, that looks nice." " Apples." "So, liam, can you get a paper bag down and we'll get some grapes." "Pop that in." "Can you get me three passion fruit please?" " You got 44." " Thanks." "Go!" "It's good." "Go sit down and have it." " Lucky boy!" " Lucky!" "Come on, you can get it in there." "Open up!" "Good job!" " Yeah, well, happy birthday to you, mom." "If, um, if... if heaven ever received, receives this video" "then hopefully you'll get it." "This is your son liam, and, um... i'm here to say happy birthday, and i hope it's good where you are." "We're off to get the boys now from school." "Just managed to chop some veggies quick before i came, 'cause life's just a bit of a blur with kids" "i totally get like it's so hard for parents to juggle everything, and i think it's easy to grab stuff out of a packet and throw it in a lunch box" "and, you know, it's quick and it's easy." "And i know i do that sometimes." "You just get into survival mode and it's crazy and it's busy and kids are screaming and they want food now, and it's easy to get a packet of chips or a nestle bar and keep them quiet." "If there's lollies or an apple, most children are going to go for the lollies." "When he first came to us at 11 years old and 80 kilos, he was headed down a path of diabetes or heart issues or a long list of health conditions" "and so, you know, i think that if there's parents out there, firstly, if you can prevent that, that's awesome." "You know, start with the end in mind and, you know, start giving your children what they need from the get-go, not what they want." "In nearly every developed country over the last three generations, and it's getting worse with the next generations coming, is obesity, extreme weight gain." "The w.h.o., the world health organization, is constantly bringing out notifications and warnings" "about the increasing rates of obesity, in not only the western world but also in the underdeveloped countries." "And at the same time, what we're seeing in these countries, especially the poor countries, is the influence of unhealthy eating habits," "huge amounts of soft drinks being consumed, the fast food companies are selling more and more of their products in these countries," "the highly processed, low-nourishment foods are what the people are being able to access." "And at the same time, we're seeing these increasing levels of obesity." "Yes, i think that we could probably pin a factor of responsibility on fast food chains and their system." "But they're just trying to find out what people are looking for, so if we don't empower our own lives as individuals" "and educate people in the general market, they're going to be vulnerable to those quick fixes." " I just think that we, society today, all of a sudden, sickness is becoming normal, obesity is becoming normal... not moving is becoming normal, sitting in front of computer screens is becoming normal," "and so all of a sudden, the standards that we might have had when we were younger and growing up or that our parents had, it's so different now." "And i just don't get how someone can look at liam or any other child for that matter who's overweight and think, "ah, it's not that bad."" " What-- what did he eat?" "Doughnuts." " Doughnuts." " Krispy kreme." " It feels like everyone is seriously against us right now." "Like teachers, other parents, and then grandparents giving him... come sit down, i want to have a bit of a chat with you." "How was your day at school today?" " It was good." " Mmm, and you had your picnic today?" " Yep." " And so what happened?" " Well, you had to share your food." " Mmm." " And, um, most people brought junk food." " Yep." " And i had some." " You had some?" "Ok." " And did you have a lot?" " Um, i guess so." " Yeah, what's something that you had?" " Hot cross buns." " Hot cross buns, ok." "I might give you a pen, and you can actually write it down." "So you already had lunch, this was after lunch today." "Is that right?" "Did you have some of the chocolate balls that i gave you?" " Yeah." " Yeah." " There was a brownie." " Yep, ok." "Wow, you went all out." "There was chocolates and chips and iced chocolate doughnuts, and buns and cupcakes," "and... it would have made me sick just trying to eat all that food and yet i could see he still probably wanted more." "And it just makes me really frustrated." "We're just going backwards, and we're putting all this hard work in:" "whole foods, live foods, hydration, getting his body moving." "And then in one fell swoop, in a 10-minute hit, he's just gone and eaten all this crap." "And it's just crazy." "So that's eight hours and 47 minutes that you need to work on your bike just to... just to remove the calories, not even the toxins," "we're just purely talking calories of what you just did." " Ok." " Eight and a half hours." "Do you think that those five, 10 minutes of eating all of that food is worth having to do that?" " No." " Not really, huh?" " No." " And i think-- you know what?" "A lot of people don't understand that." "They go, "oh, it tastes so good," and you just eat it really quick." "And then all of a sudden it's like," ""man, do you realize how long your body has to work" ""to try and deal with that stuff?"" " Mmm." "That's it." "Nice!" " Good job!" " You're doing great." "You're doing really good." "All right, you've five seconds to go, give it everything." "That's it." "I want to hear that whirring." "That's it!" "That's it!" "Good job!" " You said five seconds." " I know." "I got confused." "That was a long five seconds." " So it's been a pretty big week this week." "We had, liam had spent some time away from us for a few days just hanging out with his family." "And he'd come back and put on about three kilos, which wasn't great." "Um, and, yeah, we realized or we found out that he'd been throwing away his food" "that we've been giving him in his lunch box at school each day." "And just eating a couple of pieces of fruit, and also kind of getting food from his friends, um, as well," "so pizza and whatever else he was getting." "So a pretty emotional week." " It's not just about getting on a bike." "Get your phone out of your pocket for me." " Ugh!" " Phone out of your pocket." " No, do we have to exercise for an hour every day?" " We do." " We haven't even done an hour, mate." "Three, two, one, go!" "Fast as you can!" "Fast as you can!" "Good job, mate." "Don't slow it down." "Pick it up!" "Pick it up!" "Faster, faster, faster!" " Shut up!" " Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "All the way to the line!" " I can't do it any faster!" " You can!" "You're doing awesome!" " No, i can't!" "You're running me so hard i'm losing my speed." " Ah-ah!" "We're not going in." "Let's go again." "Go." " Three, two, one, go!" "Fast as you can!" "That's a jog, sprint it up!" "That's it!" "That's what i want!" " Let it out!" " Shut" " go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Many people confuse support and nurturing with love, and they don't understand the other side of the equation," "because support needs to be balanced by challenge, and nurture with accountability," "and pleasure with some of the pains of life, responsibilities of life." "And i say that true love is a balance of complementary opposites." "But we get the most out of people, and they grow and develop most if we actually give them both support and challenge at the same time." " Yes, it's nick's weight." " It doesn't matter what nick's weight is, mate, it's about you." "It's about you being healthy and awesome." "You're so incredible." "You just need to believe in yourself, ok?" "We all have challenges that come up in our lives." "The big thing is how we deal with those challenges." "If we're supported, if we can actually approach a challenge as a learning opportunity, rather than as a problem," "if we can see that even if we sort of fail or don't succeed, it doesn't mean that we're bad or that we're stupid or anything like that," "it just means that this is what happened, and what can we learn from that?" "And how can we be different in the future?" " Ready?" "I want you to beat me to the end." " Give me everything you've got." " And if i don't?" " You can do the washing up." " No." " Ready?" "Let's go." "Go!" "That's it!" "That's it!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Faster!" "Faster!" " Nice work!" "Nice work!" " I'm washing." " I'm right on you!" "I'm right on you!" "I'm right on you!" "Go!" "Your language is really... so we have to make sure that we, as parents," "bring a nice balance of support and challenge as an act of love for our children, prepares them for the real world out there instead of making them overprotected," "overnurtured and thinking life is supposed to be easy and so supported and kind and everything else." "So then the second challenge of there-- we're not ready for life." "So to love our children, we've got to teach them the balance of both support and challenge." "It helps them in their diet, it helps them in their genetic expression, it helps them in their life." " Do you think there's gonna be some tough times like just then?" "Where you don't wanna do it, you're grumpy about it." "You hate me for it." "You hate uncle ant for it, or dad or whatever?" "But do you think if you push through it that you might get to where you want to go?" " Maybe." " Otherwise if you just sit on the lounge, how likely is that gonna happen?" "That you reach your goals?" " Maybe like a 10 percent chance out of hundred?" " Right, so not that high, huh?" "Ok, so the last few weeks some challenges have come up with liam." "He's bucking the system." "He's not committing to the things he originally agreed upon, things like throwing his water out, not eating the good food," "getting garbage food from his buddies, being disrespectful." "And ultimately it's not just affecting him now, it's affecting our family." " So i feel like this has been really tough, especially the last few weeks." "It feels like we're pushing and, um, it just doesn't feel like it's an easy thing," "and i know that it's a tough thing for liam." " It's grating for us, it's grating for him, so i wanna have a chat with him and see how he's doing, where he's headed..." " yeah." " ...and just get a fresh commitment." "We're doing right things, there's just still more that we can refine." " Mm." " You know?" "Ultimately, we need to take responsibility and help guide him." "That's what he's here for, for our guidance." " Looking good, mate." " Mm-hmm." " Grown a fair bit already, huh?" " Yep." " You've been doing a good job." "If you're gonna be here, we need to set it up in a way that you do want to be here." "So talk to me about... i know aunty kate went for a walk with you the other day, and you were talking about minecraft." " Yeah?" " Yeah." " Is that something you play a fair bit?" " Yes." " So teach me about it." "What do you do in minecraft, and you got full energy so you got 10 hearts." " Yeah, and 10 hunger bars." " And 10 hunger bars." "Are you able to accomplish more in minecraft?" " Well, yeah..." " mm-hmm." " Either way you can still do the same, but if you have no hunger bars then your hearts start going down." " Right, and is that like real life?" " Sort of, yeah." " Yeah." "Well, knowing what i know about the body, it's very real." "How would you feel about if we set up minecraft here, and we could play that?" "Is that something that would be cool?" " Yeah." " Yeah?" "How cool?" " Very cool." " Like out of 10?" "Like are we talking about a one or a two?" " A 10." " A 10." " So you cool with that?" " Yeah." " Every child lives by a set of priorities, a set of values, things that are most important to least important in their life." "And whenever they're doing things that are highest on their values, they're more fulfilled." "And when they do, they tend to have a long-term perspective." "They tend to not be focused on immediate gratification, but more long-term opportunities." " These changes need to be sustainable, and it can't be just something he does in front of us." "Right now, it's a little bit of a kick in the guts, there's not a respect there that we're trying" "to have a healthy change." " And what's no?" " I don't want to stay down here." " Because?" " Because i don't like it down here on veggie island." " So why is this veggie island?" " Because you only eat veggies." " Uh-huh, and why do we choose to do that?" " 'Cause apparently it's healthy." " "Apparently," or it is?" " It is." " Mate, pack your bags." "I'm gonna take you home." "Let's go." " Are you serious?" " As a heart attack, my friend." " Do you think i should stay here?" " Why did you want to be with us in the first place?" " Well, i never wanted to..." "well, it's not that, i never wanted to actually... are you out of your mind?" " Are you out of your mind?" " That's probably dad." " Are you out of your mind?" "Are you out of your mind?" " Are you out of your mind?" " I'm getting it!" "I'm getting it!" " Are you out of your mind?" "Are you... when we, as individuals, are not willing to be accountable for our perceptions," "our decisions and our actions, we resort to alternatives." "And some of these alternatives are quick fixes, immediate gratifiers, that actually have long-term side effects." "But if we don't get to the real source, if we don't get into the unconscious motives," "if we don't get into the behaviors, if we don't get into the patterns that are underlying these very drives," "we're just gonna spin our wheels and look for more drastic measures, and those are all side effects that are gonna come with it." "And it's wiser to go in there and be accountable, and be responsible for wise action, wise perception, wise decisions." " So ant's spent hours outside with liam this afternoon just deliberating back and forth if he's gonna stay, if he's gonna go home," "and i can see he really is struggling with the decision." "He wants to stay for a lot of reasons, but also he just wants to go home and back to his old ways." "Um, i think deep down he really, really wants to be here, and i think he knows what's possible." "So i think he can do it." " You wanna come and chat with me outside?" " Ok." " So what does this say?" "Can you read it out to me?" " "I am for some reason committed to doing this for three days."" " "For some reason." And what are you committed to doing?" " "Exercising 30 minutes in the morning," " "three bowls of water a day."" " Awesome, cool." " So in the end we got there today." "There were new commitments made from liam, albeit through gritted teeth." "I think that the thing that really got us there was realizing the way we like to do things is not necessarily the way he likes to." "I'd rather be outside by the beach running along." "We established he loves computers, he love to watch the numbers, so we're gonna get him a treadmill." "And the recommitments come from him, and i think that's important." "And we're gonna start to do things the way he wants to do it and that's gonna make things sustainable." "There's so much marketing and advertising that's trying to get people to drink soft drinks and fruit drinks in bottles and cans," "and these are all incredibly unhealthy for us." "They're full of sugar and all they are is they're just rubbish that we're putting into our systems." "Now, if we look at that human body, what's it mostly made up of?" " Water." " Water." "How much?" " 65, 70 percent." "How much of water is the planet made up of?" "About the same?" "All these things here, what are they made up of mostly?" " Water." " About the same percentage." "I start to see a pattern here." "So when we define "eat food," what should we be putting in our body?" "Alive, water-based plant foods." "If that's mostly what you're putting in, see, people are looking for, "what's your detox tips, what's your weight-loss tips?"" "Put the stuff in your body that it needs to have there, and then there's not this excess," "it'll start to detoxify the things that shouldn't be there." "It'll start to actually feed the cells, 'cause people go, "i just ate, but i feel hungry,"" "not too far down the track." "Why is that?" "'Cause you didn't feed the cells, you didn't eat food." "We're continually sweating, we're continually losing fluid when we breathe, and we lose water when we go to the toilet." "We need to be replacing that water, and we need to be keeping it moving through our systems." "So drinking a good amount of clean water every day, is a very healthy thing to do." " I love you." " I love you, too!" "Looks good!" " Hi." " Hi." " Yummy!" " Happy days." " Happy days." " Hey, buddy, what you got?" " Um, just some stuff to make a smoothie." " Awesome, ok." "(Muttering" " you have to lay it flat." " Yep." " Just add a bit of water in here." " That's probably one of the best you've actually made." "Reckon?" "The spinach tastes good." "So, yeah, it's friday night." "Whoo-hoo!" "And that's a good thing." "We have just come back from a organic restaurant." "They've got vegetarian pizzas, which doesn't even taste vegetarian." "It tastes like, well, not entirely like you're eating a meat pizza but, you know, it tastes something like that." "Strong all the way, matey." "Go, go, go." " You know, getting fit and healthy doesn't have to be hard." "It all comes down to doing good things for your body consistently." "You know, it could be pushing your kids in the pram and using that as resistance training." "Or it could be running up the stairs instead of walking up the stairs, or it might be riding your bike down the street instead of driving the car down the street." "It could be having a green smoothie instead of a milkshake, or it may be switching a fizzy drink for a fresh juice or a water." "It's those little things that if you can do consistently that's what makes a big difference." "That's what gets people results." "And i really believe that if anyone out there wants to do that for their own life, they really can." " There's lots of people who are thin, who don't eat well, who smoke cigarettes, who drink lots of alcohol, who don't exercise." "They just don't eat as much as other people." "That's why they're thin." "But on the inside, they're very, very unhealthy." "So we talked a lot about being unhealthy let's talk about, more about, what actually being healthy is." "Every day you wake up, there are three things you do-- you put into your body, right?" "What do you put in your body?" "Three things... every day?" " Food." " Food's one, yeah." " Water?" " Water, very good." "Only one more to go." " Um." " You've just done it in the last five seconds." " Air?" " Very good." "Air, water and food." "Now you know what those three things are?" "They're energy." "Now i would say the ball's in your court now what you do with that." "You know, because no one's gonna appear and wave a magic wand and knock 20 pounds off you, or in australia 10 kilos off you." "Five kilos, whatever you want to lose." "It's not going to happen." "You've gotta do it yourself." "You gotta choose what you put in your mouth." "It's all on you." "A person who exercises regularly has a bigger, better looking heart." "A person who eats well, drinks enough water, you can see it when you look at their liver." "Every system on the inside is directly affected by what we're doing on the outside, and what we're putting into our bodies." "Finally we're getting there." "Liam's starting to make the changes that he needs to." "He's starting to exercise, there's some consistency there." "It may not be at the intensity we'd necessarily like, but he's doing it." "Go!" " Aw!" " I-- i win!" "Spoiler alert." "The film crew might come down there sometime to see us doing stuff in the kitchen." "They're actually going to get us running the marathon, the gold coast marathon on saturday, next saturday." "I'm only running the five kilometers out of all 42, but yeah, at least it's something." " We want to take your posture shots today and see where your spine is, where it's moved to and your progress." " Mm-hmm." " Right, and now turn and face the blue wall." " So just move over so your shoulder is touching on the side." "And then just stand up nice and tall." "And it'll come down and tap you on the head." "And grab your heart." "Don't nip me." " Awesome." " And then grab these handles, and you just want your thumb on the gold part also." "And you want to stand straight, nice and tall, with your arms out a little bit, perfect." " Right there or..." " yeah, that's fine." " What's s.m.m. mean?" " Skeletal muscle mass." "That's a really, really good weight to be at for your height." "You made some awesome changes so far, right?" "Yeah, especially on the outside but not just there, also on the inside." "So, you run this morning?" " Yeah." " Cool, how far'd you go?" " 7.5." " wow, on the treadmill?" " Yeah, in an hour." " Sweet." "So you looking good for the marathon?" " Mm-hmm." " Awesome." "Well, mate, just not on the outside, 'cause clearly you made impressive, impressive changes with your body." "But on the inside, there's been some pretty cool stuff happening as well." "You've been nice and consistent with your adjustments." "With your spine, you remember the spine protects your central nervous system." "And that controls everything in your body and so as we've been able to change the shape of your body," "the pressure's coming off the nervous system." "This is an x-ray of your neck from the side." "What we see here is that beautiful yellow line, that's the arc of life, but your spine was very straight, where the red line is." "Research shows that's going to be stretching the spinal cord five to seven centimeters." "That puts a lot of pressure through the disks." "Now fast-forward three, four months down the track, and we see that beautiful curve starting to come back in the spine," "taking the pressure off the spinal cord, and allows that atlas to come to 31 degrees," "that brain-body connection so much greater-- healing functioning well." "I know personally there's nothing better than feeling healthy." "When i feel healthy, i have energy, i feel strong, i look at the day and i think, "what can i do today?" ""How well can i do it?" My motivation's up." "We all wanna be healthy, and feeling healthy just gives us a much greater chance to be doing" "what we wanna do in the way that we wanna do it." "Get after that thing." " Good job, mate, get after it." "Every step." "That's it." "Pump, pump, pump." "Hard, hard, hard, hard!" "Let's go, go, go, go!" " Come on!" "Imagine if you were the weight that you were supposed to be and that you know you can be and then you put on a backpack" "with 20 kilograms of rocks in it and spent the whole day walking around." "You feel exhausted." "You feel weighed down." "Being unhealthy is not a good feeling." "Being unhealthy makes it very difficult to function well and to be happy in the rest of your life." " That's how much weight you've lost, mate." " So just place it into the bag." " Oh, no!" "When it was on my body, it didn't feel as heavy." " All right." "Ok, let's go." "All the way up." "Keep going." " Keep moving, keep moving." "Go, go, go, go." "How was that?" "Hard." " So imagine lugging that around still?" "How that would feel to your joints?" "Through your body, through your back?" " Well, if anything, i felt it more in my shoulders." " Yeah, absolutely." "It's a big weight off your shoulders, isn't it?" " Mm-hmm." " So imagine having that, and if you had kept going the way you were," " would you be 80 now still?" " Nah." " What do you reckon you woulda been now?" " Probably woulda been around 85." " Right." "So, dude, you've done an amazing, amazing job." " 'Cause every year i seem to go up by about 10 kilos." " Yeah?" "Wow." " But not exactly every year." " Yeah." "But not this year though." "It'll be a year to remember." "Whoa!" "Pull, pull, pull." "Twist, twist." "Twist!" " Yeah!" " Good job, that's great." " Oh, are we gonna make a bonfire?" " We're gonna have a bonfire." " Let him have it." " Oh, this is crazy." " Put your hands all the way." " Please don't do this." "Please don't do this to me." " It's ok." " Ah!" " See why they're called bells." "Ah, there it is." " Ah, i got him hooked." "Yes, i knew i'd get the first one!" "This is where i lost it last time." "Yes!" "Well, yesterday we went down to the farm." "And, uh, yeah, we did some filming there." "We got the quad bike out." "We went to get some macadamia nuts and some avocados and we go in the garden and go fishing, make a fire." "Uh, we made pesto and hummus, played around a bit." "And yeah, that was fun." " Liam gets a shot first." "Look at this fire, huh?" " Please be good." " What's the verdict?" " Good." " Mm, nice." "A lot of hard work went into those macadamias." "You wanna share it around to anybody?" " I'm, i'm..." " um, bodie's next." " Ok, bodie." " Yeah, pick him up." "I'm grateful that we're having a fire, and this was the best day of my life." "Wow, that's pretty awesome." " You're sure being born into the world wasn't the best day of your life?" "What are you grateful for today, liam?" " I'm grateful for that last exercise and feeling how heavy the 20 kilos was." " Yeah, how far you've come, mate." "Uh, eating pesto and hummus..." " ...and the nachos which look like blueberry stuff, uh, making the fire, going fishing, riding the quad bike..." " ...he is as well." "Um, coming to the farm... getting my skin done... um... that's it." " Cool." " Oh, and dinner." " And dinner." " It was good." "And lunch." " Well, yeah, it was... ladies and gentlemen, take your marks, take your marks and go!" "Come on, everybody, let's go!" "Come on, everyone, let's go!" "I can't get over how much energy now liam has." "It's like to go from being obese, dropping 20-odd kilos, to coming down here to do his first marathon, that's just unbelievable." "Absolutely unbelievable." " We're doing good." "We're nearly at the finish line." "Look, over there." "This is liam golle and tegan golle reporting in." "We have something like 100 meters to go!" "Well done!" " Tegan, let's do this." "Come on, run!" "As fast as you can!" "Run, liam!" "Come on!" "Tegan!" "Whoo!" " This one's going on youtube." "Awesome!" " Buddy!" "Congratulations!" "That was the best you've done." " Yeah." " Get it, mom?" " Oh, arnie wants to take one of everyone, too." "It's heading to facebook." "Yeah!" "The positive impacts that i've noticed directly with liam is his maturity, his outlook on life, um, his strength, his energy, he's more active at school," "um, other parents have made comments straight away," ""wow, this is amazing." "What's he been through?" "What's he done?" "In his soccer games, they would never see him take a ball, go off to the sideline when he's coming off as a reserve," "um, and kick the ball around and still practice his skills." "He'd normally be the first one sitting down, complaining and huffing and puffing." "And that's all changed." " Hut, hut, hut!" "Let's go, go, go, go!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "You can list the 100 most common ailments or symptoms, and every one of them relate back to:" "not enough water, not enough sunshine, not enough fresh air." "What if health in life really is that simple?" "If we say that wealth is not about how much money you have, but wealth is actually about how healthy you are," "and how much time you're able to spend doing what you really love." "If we can teach people that relationships are incredibly important, then we can really change the overall way that we see health and well-being." " This is about trying to make very small changes for a big time." "As albert einstein said, "the greatest teacher is exemplification."" "So if you care about your children, exemplify an inspired and meaningful life." "Eat wisely, to live, not live to eat." "I'm so, so incredibly proud of liam." "The changes he's made are nothing short of inspirational." "This hasn't been easy." "This has been quite a roller coaster there's ups, there's downs." "But the fact is he's done it." "He's made the changes, and he's winning." "I'm so proud of you, your family is so proud of you, liam, and i know your mom will be so proud of you." " That's it, faster, faster." "Rip it up, rip it." "That's it, good." " Keep going, keep going." "Again." "Left-right, left-right."