Oct 15, 2019
HUMAN BEINGS OF THIS PLANET MY FRIEND TONY
We had become friends when we were still medical students. and shared the same hospital when we were training to become specialist physicians. It was not Medicine that brought us…
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Sep 15, 2019
CAN PLASTICS CAUSE TYPE 2 DIABETES? YES OF COURSE
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Can Plastics cause Diabetes? Asked a prominent British Endocrine Researcher. The audience was aghast, such a relationship was unthinkable. Of course now…
Sep 15, 2019
THE FEASTS OF HAVANA CUBA : A GLIMPSE OF LIVES HAPPILY LIVED
After I had delivered a talk at the annual conference of Endocrinology in 2019, an Argentine doctor said she needed an explanation: This is my first visit to Cuba, she…
Sep 15, 2019
A PHYSICIAN-ANTHROPOLOGIST CONSUMES ONLY ORGANIC FOOD FOR FOUR DAYS AND THIS IS HIS REPORT
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…
Sep 15, 2019
HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO ACCESS AND CONSUME ORGANIC FOOD IN MIAMI
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…
Sep 15, 2019
HAVANA IS TRULY AN UNENDING FEAST: A DELIGHTFUL WEEK IN SAN CRISTOBAL DE LA HABANA
I had been looking forward to my return to the island, with a brief sojourn in Miami where I enjoyed spending a couple of days in the Everglades National Park.…
Sep 15, 2019
DAY IN THE LIFE OF A PHYSICIAN ANTHROPOLOGIST
When I was finishing my post graduate studies in Medicine (Endocrinology) my contemporaries were busy scouting for future residences and private practices. I was intent on an International Career which…
Sep 15, 2019
KINDNESS IN THE TIME OF DIFFICULTIES MY LIFE IN HAVANA CUBA
KINDNESS IN THE TIME OF DIFFICULTIES I have always wondered why the Cubans who live in the island are so kind and demonstrate a sense of solidarity that one rarely…
Aug 15, 2019
GOING HOME TO HAVANA. FIRST LEG. AMSTERDAM TO LONDON TO MIAMI
I had arrived at Amsterdam Schipol Airport from Corinthia Corentin region of Austria the day before, four hours by train from its capital Klagenfort to Vienna and a short Austrian…
Aug 15, 2019
LOTS OF VITAMIN D , DOES IT HELP BUILD BONES IN HEALTHY PEOPLE NO NO NO
As an endocrinologist, I believe that we must give hormones or supplements to people who demonstrate a definite deficiency and not on some empirical treatment that more may be better…
Aug 15, 2019
SARAH COHEN OF JEW STREET, JEW TOWN, MATTANCHERRY, COCHIN, KERALA INIDA 30AUG2019
our beloved SARAH is no more! I received three emails from Cochin today 30.08.2019 informing me that she had passed away. So many images passed through my mind. Jew Town…
Aug 15, 2019
HOW TO READ A MEDICAL ARTICLE WITH A CRITICAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL EYE?
HOW TO READ A MEDICAL ARTICLE WITH A CRITICAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL EYE? A total of 41 studies published between 1963 and 2018 were included, of which 40 were classified as safe…