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.
CULTURAL COMPETENCY IS NOT ENOUGH THE CASE OF MONTREAL AIRPORT Each of the person I met today –in the context of the interactions of capitalist culture of travel- was culturally…
INFLAMMATION AS THE COMMON PATHWAY TO CHRONIC DISEASES IN 2002, I was wandering around the streets of Johor Bahru, Malaysia when I came across books being sold at a Hindu…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE LEE KUAN YEW AND HIS QUESTION FOR BERNARD LEWIS I quote verbatim, from Notes on Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historians…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE THE AGELESS MAN OF KUALA TRENGGANU For those who hide behind their identities and the exteriors of themselves and their skin as…
After weathering the Snow storm while visiting the Lakota Indians, I made up my mind to visit Pak Hendra in Bogor. But as is my routine, I decided to make…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE I have been fortunate to work with American Indians in the USA. Because of their uniqueness, I tried to learn as much…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Searching for Seder in Brussels I used to be very active in Jewish Student affairs when I was at school as well…
This evening, all over the world, Jewish People of all hues, nationalities, religious beliefs will celebrate PESACH.. Over the course of years, I have been lucky to celebrate Passover Seder…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE EUROPEAN/AMERICAN/AUSTRALIAN TOURISTS TO ASIA SEEN AS BEGGARS Last year an astonishing one billion (nearly one out six humans on this planet) took…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE AMERICA IS THE FUTURE* *APPLICABLE TO AUSTRALIA, CANADA AND NZ TO A LESSER DEGREE Why do I think so? After many years…
VITAMIN D THE NEW SUPERVITAMIN BUT IS IT A HORMONE? Should Vitamin D be renamed Sunshine Hormone? Vitamin D3 is synthesized in the skin during summer under the influence of…
Walking along this pleasant city, I was amazed at the similarities (at least superficially) that meets a visitor to the central part of the city. Retired moslem women from Maghreb,…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE A WEEK IN THE LIFE OF AN ENDOCRINOLOGIST TRIP REPORT: ONE-WEEK IN AMERICA I was still a student in Australia when I…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE It was on the first few days of a fresh New Year in la Habana, when someone introduced me to Augusto Monterroso…
Normal 0 false false false false EN-US JA X-NONE INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE: NOSTALGIA FOR NAMIBIA When I was reading Anthropology at London, had a chance to visit the San people of…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE THE PREVENTION OF DIABETES, HYPERTENSION AND OBESITY IN INDONESIA: THE SENTUL HEALTHY HAPPY LIVING Indonesia shares two major characteristics with its neighbours…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL TIME The greatest gift that I can give to my friends is TIME. That is why I…
GRATITUDE TOWARDS MY TEACHERS American Indians, as always Lately, MC in KL, PKJ in Bogor When the student is ready, a teacher would appear. Instead of roaming around the world…
