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.
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…
We are living through a little difficult times that requires understanding of one another and also tolerant and compassionate behaviours to the others and be considerate of the feeble persons…
I have always wondered why we listen to the music that we listen to. Cesaria Evora from Cabo Verde sang in Portuguese Creole that no one, not even Portuguese speakers…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE The Year 2019 has been a good year for travel, but then again which year has not been a good one ?…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE --> THE MAGIC OCTOBER CONTINUES Today is 26 th October 2019 On 26 th September I was in Lisbon, Portugal catching a…
WHAT A LOVELY END Loves have only grown.. CUBA my home, the numerous brothers and sister that I toil for.. a glass of Chenin Blanc from an Indian winery, ah…
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…
I have been very lucky to have some very good friends in KL, of course not to mention my best friend in all of Asia, YMC, whom I met while…
WHENEVER I SEE A HEADLINES IN A BLOG OR TRAVEL MAGAZINE Top 10 Travel Destinations In The World For 2019, According To TripAdvisor I quickly make a mental note to…
Any lover of Mexico and its grand culture would know the above quote attributed to Gen. Porfirio Diaz. First they took the land away, Texas and California among them. Like…
Mun Ching Yong has been a friend of mine for over a decade when we met on an Air Asia Flight to Siem Reap from Kuala Lumpur in February 2008.…
In recent months, I have met people with whom I immediately clicked, they are such good representations of the North American generosity, open mindedness and kindness. It was even amazing…
On arrival at the LISBOA airport, the exit was speedy, as there were no passport controls, coming in from Nantes in France. Quickly making myself familiar with the arrivals area,…
Why are people so nice to me? I asked Alejandra, the lady in charge of the Amazonas BnB where I am staying in Leticia, in Colombian Amazon, just across from…
FRIENDSHIP OVER TIME AND DISTANCE While I was a post graduate student at Jackson Memorial Hospital of the University of Miami, the southern cone of the Americas was always within…
THE LAST JEW OF COCHIN Elias Josephai When and if this gentleman goes to Israel to join his children, the last of any Jewish lived in knowledge and history would…
TRANSACTIONS OF SYMBOLS: A FREQUENT FLIER STORY I just had a wonderful trip on Etihad Airways, very content, despite it being 15 hours in length. It was good to observe…
Australian researchers have uncovered how the massive DNA molecules that appear in some tumours are formed like Frankenstein's monster, stitched together from other parts of the genome. This solves a…
