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.
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 UNEXPECTED PLEASURES IN PARIS OF JAWA AND MEMORIES OF THE MAGIC OF BANDOENG On a good day, without the perennial traffic jams…
I am used to meeting visitors in various parts of the world, but today was an unique experience for me in that I was waiting for a group of Indonesians…
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…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE SENTUL HEALTHY HAPPY LIVING AND PERSONAL HEALTH During each of my visits to Bogor, the focus of the conversations has been Personal…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE The incredible Hospitality of the Indonesians The Sentul Healthy Happy Living Group of Pak J. I am just finishing my third trip…
SOME friends find my professional role as a Lifestyle Coach (Endocrinologist plus Medical Anthropologist amounts to that!) and the sumptuous eating that I am so very fond of, a little…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE INVEST IN FRIENDSHIPS, IT IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH Looking at the habits of healthy and happy people, all over the world,…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE PUMPKIN SOUP WITH CHICKEN: A TRADITIONAL MEAL OF THE KIKAPU My Kikapu sister brings big sized squash from Mexico and with the…
MALAYSIA IN CUBA I have been very lucky to meet some excellent people in Malaysia, the best among them being MCY whom I had met serendipitously in 2008. She introduced…
Up here we are HUMAN...learning to be a Human Being among the Indians.. I have spent the past week with the Lakota at Cheyenne River. As each day came to…
Today is September 28 th , 2012 I have just finished reading an interesting book by Murakami Haruki: What do I think when I am Running. It has very little…
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…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE SHANA TOVAH TO OUR BRETHREN IN IRAN This is the last Shabbat before the Jewish New Year 5773. I had two pieces…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE A Good Month of News that warms the heart.. I left IAH on 1 August 2012 on Qatar Airways to DOHA and…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE A good friend of mine from Kuala Lumpur sent me two articles from our mutual favourite magazine, The Economist. Both are on…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE LIFESTYLE CHANGES: LESSONS FROM FRANCE AND INDONESIA Currently Lifestyle changes as a remedy is being touted all over the world, in print…
BUKA BERSAMAN.. Exactly 44 hours after leaving the Blue House among the Indians, I walked out of the customs hall at the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport at CGK in Jakarta..Visa on…
