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.
Fraud suspected in Miami-Dade diabetes care An investigation has flagged Miami-Dade as accounting for over half the $1 billion that Medicare paid out nationally for treatment of homebound diabetes patients.…
The flight from CDG to MIA is a little tedious, 9 hours and 30 minutes.. the first few hours goes by quickly and then a couple of hours go slowly..…
Genetic 'map' of Asia's diversity The study indicates that all of Asia was populated through one migration event. Even during a short time period such as one's life time, the…
Made in America… time for a boycott? No this is not anti American rhetoric coming from South of the Border, but a look into what damage Fruits and Vegetables grown…
Christmas Punishment Never before in my life have I lost my appetite completely, but on the evening of the 19th December 2009, I did. What a punishment since I was…
Kervallon Today is Boxing Day and I am at a Breton village, Kervallon. Ker is village in the language, so every time you hear Ker…you can be sure that the…
French Paradox Explained at a Breton Village The drive from the seaside Breton village of Quiberon with its holiday festive atmosphere and the shops awaiting the tourists, to the village…
Kervallon-Cuba Connexion? How could be a village of population 20, be connected to our beloved island in the Caribbean? Improbable, no? I am not counting my presence here, bringing in…
A nice Shabbat Gift in Levallois Friday Night 13 Chesvan 5770 This night I had dinner at Café Louis, a Melbourne kind of café, doting couples out on a date,…
My dearest Brothers in Portland, Oregon and the Mischpuchah there & our Israeli Mischpochah in Haifa: Shabbat Shalom. But this Shabbat has a special meaning. We are always looking for…
Electronic Communications and social Networking Internet has been a great blessing for travelers. Since 2002, my world has rotated around Cuba, Miami, Los Indios, Paris 2006, KL 2008, Vietnam, Cambodia…
What all can happen in a couple of days in Miami? It had been a love at first sight when I arrived in Miami as an undergraduate student, a love…
Confessions of a Frequent Flier One Pass Platinum Star Alliance AND Air France Flying Blue Gold Skyteam Obsession with small luxuries of International Travel Just a couple of days ago…
I have always enjoyed that sweet sensation of Saudade, possibly the one of the more beloved words that i like in any language. a feeling of impending loss and the…
For some reason, I was thinking of Mexico today..nothing precipitated this nostalgia for a country where I used to travel very often during my student days..Since Yucatan is close to…
Political collectedness has never bothered the French, the president marries a model who poses nude, the minister of justice has a baby out of wedlock, they refuse to speak English…
it has been a while since I had drank coca-cola ( I must have been healthy?) btu this morning at Charles de Gaulle Airport- I had, not one, but three…
Walk over to the school in the morning and chat and check about 26 students. Mainly for their propensity for Insulin Resistance and future Type 2 Diabetes. In between other…
