Aug 15, 2013
Bridesles Bains Theweight Loss Capital
BRIDES LES BAINS THE WEIGHT LOSS CAPITAL OF FRANCE, BUT DOES IT WORK? The Water and the Body in the French Alps: Charles (The Bald) OF FRANCE , Holy Roman…
Stories
Field notes from the road
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.Archive into inquiry
These field notes are not only memory. They are the ground from which my new field inquiries begin.
The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
Aug 15, 2013
CUBA IN MY HEART: AN INCREDIBLE ENCOUNTER AT ISTANBUL AIRPORT
CUBA IN MY HEART INCREDIBLE ENCOUNTER AT TK ICP LOUNGE AT ISTANBUL AIRPORT American Indians say, Things happen for Reason. There are no coincidences, it is just we cannot understand…
Jul 15, 2013
CULTURAL COMPETENCY ALONE IS NOT ENOUGH: THE CASE OF MONTREAL YUL AIRPORT
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…
Jun 15, 2013
LIFESTYLE CAUSING INFLAMMATION OF THE BODY: OBESITY, DIABETES, HYPERTENSION, HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES
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…
Jun 15, 2013
PUTIN AND DEMOCRACY: IS IT REALLY THAT DIFFERENT FROM MANY OF THE ELECTED DEMOCRACIES IN THE AMERICAS?
I read something very interesting in Simon Kuper's column in the FT a few days ago. He was describing his meeting with an old friend who stayed on in Moscow…
Apr 15, 2013
AN ENDOCRINOLOGIST IN SOUTH TEXAS: FROM INDIANS TO INDIANS
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE The alarm went off at 0600 AM, I had already packed my bags, so it was easy to be ready to leave…
Mar 15, 2013
SEARCHING FOR SEDER IN BRUSSELS
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…
Mar 15, 2013
A WANDERING JEW’S PESACH: SO HAPPY TO CELEBRATE, SO HAPPY TO REMEMBER
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…
Mar 15, 2013
AMERICA IS THE FUTURE
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…
Mar 15, 2013
FOOD AS MEDICINE, NOT JUST SUSTENANCE
When you talk to many of the western trained doctors or nutritionists, they tend to reduce food into Medical Nutritional Therapy as if eating is a form of Therapy for…
Jan 15, 2013
SIGN OF THE TIMES IN EUROPEAN CITIES
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,…
Dec 15, 2012
GRATEFUL FOR A GOOD YEAR OF TRAVEL 2012: A PHOTO ESSAY
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE GOOD YEAR FOR TRAVEL 2012 I had become aware of travel at an early age, after all I had to move countries…
Dec 15, 2012
A CUBAN ANTHROPOLOGIST AT MADRID BARAJAS AIRPORT
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE A CUBAN ANTHROPOLOGIST AT MADRID BARAJAS AIRPORT I am catching a flight to MIA today via FRA. Arriving just one our before…
Dec 15, 2012
EATING OUT IN MIAMI : COMPANY IS USUALLY BETTER THAN THE FOOD
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE An Evening Out Dining in Miami We are in the habit of lamenting the disappearing scene of restaurants, we get attached to…
Nov 15, 2012
HAVANA TO MIAMI: IN 39 MINUTES YOU CAN BE IN ANOTHER PLANET
AA 9471 HAV-MIA 39 Minutes 15 minutes after leaving Havana, our aircraft was already over the Marathon Bridge, by 30 minutes we had entered the Everglades National park, descending into…
Oct 15, 2012
PRAYERS FOR SISTER JACKIE AND MAMMIG: THANK YOU TO DR WANG AND IGR, VILLEJUIF
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Praying for Sister Jackie and Mammig and offering gratitude to Dr Wang, Miami and IGR at Villejuif, Paris The outside temperature is…
Oct 15, 2012
The Jewish Nobel Prize Winners
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE THE JEWISH NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS This week is a week of pride for Jews who take pride in being Jews. As each…
Sep 15, 2012
COMPASSION IS SPIRITUALITY
Normal 0 false false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Compassion is a path to spirituality whereas being religious may not be, when ideologies may serve various masters, and not necessarily…