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Natalie d'Arbeloff Born in Paris, raised in Europe, Paraguay, Brazil and the USA, Natalie d’Arbeloff speaks those languages and lives in London. Her father was Russian and her mother French.…
The Covid 19 pandemic has revealed many wrongful aspects of our societies. We tend to concentrate on the disparity of wealth, social order and race relations. One positive aspect that…
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?…
BRASIL has always been in my mind’s horizon. I have been lucky to see a small part of this immensely diverse country, from the Argentina border at Foz do Iguassu…
I have been thinking of Leticia on the Colombian Amazon, bordering with Tabatinga in Brasil as well as across the stream from Santa Rosa in Peru. I really want to…
It is raining in Miami. Nothing unusual at this time of the year. Moments like this From unknown places A song would drift in I know I am in for…
AN ANTHROPOLOGIST LOOKS AT CHOLESTEROL IN BLOOD Key findings Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey ● During 2015–2018, 11.4% of adults had high total cholesterol, and prevalence…
It is with the greatest of sadness that I read the news that the remote Yanomami have been afflicted with the Covid-19 The current government of Brasil is not at…
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,…
0 0 1 1909 10884 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 90 25 12768 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE I am an Endocrinologist, a medical doctor…
0 0 1 422 2410 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 20 5 2827 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY MEDICINE Because of my long…
MIAMI THE MOST CULTURALLY DIVERSE CITY IN LATIN AMERICA When he was 16, while hitchhiking in his native Chile, he was given a lift, Donde tu vas? Muchacho? said the…