Medicine, culture, travel, food, healing, and human stories from my archive. Start with a trail, search for a memory, or move by year.
Roads, meals, clinics, and human encounters.The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
Oh, unlucky American patients-so close to good personal medical attention in Mexico and yet so far from a holistic approach. Just about a month ago, I returned to the Ticuna…
With Gratitude we goodbye to 2023 and with Gratitude we welcome 2024. It is good to reflect on happiness in this moment of great transition from one year to the…
In the all the various diets touted over the years which by their rate of failure is heard no more, it is always about some or other quantitative measure: calories…
Nearly half the physicians practising in the USA did not think that their patients would benefit from Nutritional Counseling ! These are patients who had consulted these doctors because they…
I cannot imagine eating Italian food in Kuala Lumpur or Burgers in Cochin or not to indulge in khmer cuisine in Siem Reap or not to savour the sumptuous flavours…
Landladies and Inn keepers may have offered "curried" dishes before then, but this was the first restaurant owned and operated by and an Indian, a Bengali Muslim Sake Dean Mohammed,…
When talking to my friends at the Ticuna village along the Colombian Amazon, the fear they express, this time around from the Settlers from Europe, is the industrialization of the…
When asked to accompany an European-Australian to go for a run around a football field, an Australian aboriginal person accepted the invitation and ran with him around the ground. When…
While we were reading Medicine at the University, we are taught about the glucose excursions after a meal, in such a fashion. A powerpoint goes up and the teacher explains:…
Australia which gave us some excellent Nutritional leaders and pioneering research in Nutrition, lately has ben sending cut and paste articles on Nutrition on various websites. As Harari would say…
WHO IS DYING FROM COVID 19 WHICH COUNTRY ARE YOU IN ? CUBA OR INDONESIA , VIETNAM OR BANGLADESH IN THE USA, WHAT IS YOUR INCOME? WHAT IS YOUR COLOUR?…
The concept of UPFs was born in the early years of this millennium when a Brazilian scientist called Carlos Monteiro noticed a paradox. People appeared to be buying less sugar,…
Had time only for One breakfast at Double Tree Sukhumvit One breakfast at Qatar Airways Lounge at Souvanabhumi one meal at NARA in Sukhumvit one meal at Tlaling Pling and…
Not even an exaggerated imagination would grant Bangkok the title of a Beautifiul City, but what is present here? that attract millions of visitors per year? When I arrived at…
ARABIC STYLE FOOD IN COCHIN, KERALA The name of the restaurant was attractive enough, ZATAAR, the herb mentioned in the Jewish scriptures, which in Israel one uses in abundance. Mr…
When my interest began in the additives and chemicals to the food we ingest and the continuing rise of non communicable diseases such as Type 2 Diabetes and non-auto immune…
The answer is quick: Not that easy Where I stay in Miami, in the Kendall area, there are a variety of supermarkets within easy reach, say within 10 km. There…
One of the first moments of consternation when trying to understand the philosophy of the Native Indians happened with the People of the Red Earth when my teacher said to…
