May 15, 2021
SHABBAT SHALOM FROM MIAMI … WHERE SHALL I GO ?
These are the countries which are close to my heart and in each one of them there are conflicts of one sort of another: all politicized, whether it is the…
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Medical Themes: <span>Food Culture</span>
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May 15, 2021
CAN YOU SHED TEARS FOR A BOOK SELLER? MR SHANBAG THE BOOKSELLER OF BANGALORE
A little History: I used to make a side trip to Bangalore when I visited Cochin to visit the Premier Bookstore, alas no more, the owner migrated to Australia, I…
May 15, 2021
WHAT IS MORE DANGEROUS? COCA COLA OR AL QAEDA ?
Since the 1980s, in the USA, obesity and diseases related to that have been on the increase. Despite the enormous amount of money spent on TREATMENT (Americans are less interested…
May 15, 2021
BE PART OF THE WELLBEING OF OTHERS, GOOD KARMA
Why do people Migrate? is it for themselves or for the country that are migrating to ? Is it a fair question to ask a Syrian fleeing Alep, to go…
May 15, 2021
WHAT IS THE INDIAN FOOD SERVED IN “INDIAN” RESTARAURANTS OUTSIDE INDIA
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,…
May 15, 2021
IS KINDNESS CONTAGIOUS: A WONDERFUL DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN ENDOCRINOLOGIST/ANTHROPOLOGIST TO THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
One of the pleasures of driving leisurely to the National Park to visit the Indigenous people, is to listen to BBC World Service.. It is truly, as it claims, the…
May 15, 2021
CHARLATANS OF HEALTH:EXERCISE, OBESITY, NUTRITION AND DIABETES: A VIEW FROM THE SOCIETY OR FROM THE GROUND.
this is a continuation of the previous post, I was having some trouble with this paragraph and the video to attach to the blog. Nowhere in the west you can…
May 15, 2021
EXERCISE, OBESITY, NUTRITION AND DIABETES: A VIEW FROM THE SOCIETY OR FROM THE GROUND.
There is not a single person in USA and perhaps the world who DOES NOT know that EXERCISE is good for you and a basic understanding of what foods are…
May 15, 2021
A WONDERFUL DAY IN MIAMI: WITH GRATITUDE TO ALL THAT WHICH WAS LEARNED IN THIS YEAR OF ISOLATION
It was a nice day here in Miami today. The weather was picture perfect. I had contact with many of my friends around the world. The men of letters that…
Apr 15, 2021
INDUSTRIALIZATION OF FOOD HAS BEEN THE DEATH BLOW TO THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
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…
Apr 15, 2021
CUBAN SOLIDARITY, NORTH AMERICAN FRAGILITY AND JALALUDDIN RUMI ..
While at the beginning of the Pandemic in 2020 and the various types of isolation that were to follow, many people, including me, welcomed the isolation and lack of intrusion…
Apr 15, 2021
FATTY LIVER, WHAT CAN WE DO? DRINK SOME CUBAN COFFEE..
One of the simple pleasures in life is to sip a cup of Cuban Coffee. I walk to the nearest cafe, and order a Cortadito which is a Cuban style…