Oct 15, 2010
Childhood Obesity in the USA
Some thoughts on Childhood Obesity in the USA as I am waiting for a Lunch of Langoustines in the sea side Brittany port of Quiberon.. The prevalence of overweight was…
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.
Oct 15, 2010
It is so easy to be a Medical Pawn…
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False John P. A. Ioannidis John P. A. Ioannidis is in the Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina,…
Oct 15, 2010
It is Nice to Dream about San Cristobal de la Habana
Reveries of a Born Traveler Three days after my birth, an astrologer was consulted who drew the map of the stars at the time of birth (a chart I still…
Oct 15, 2010
What All Happens in the Course of One Week?
LH Miami to Frankfurt to Kuala Lumpur. Reunion with Friends over a Chinese Dinner. Brunch at Mandarin Oriental. Pedicure/Manicure by the greatest Pedicurist in the world, GS at A Cut…
Oct 15, 2010
The Deep Legacy of Khmer in Mekong Delta. Soc Trang Province
When I visited Cambodia regularly in the past, I was vaguely aware of a Khmer population in the delta region of South Vietnam. I had expected pockets of small communities…
Sep 15, 2010
One day of Dining at Soc Trang, Mekong Delta
It is raining heavily here, but that does not stop one from searching for good food which is so readily available here in Vietnam. someone in Europe asked me, is…
Sep 15, 2010
Thinking about a Quote by Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell: “there is far too much work done in the world...immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous.” These are ruminations, pardon the pun, of a…
Sep 15, 2010
Eating in TRULY ASIA … that is, MALAYSIA
Day 1 Lunch at CITRUS, at Bangsar. Nouvelle cuisine Pakistanaise. Dinner at JANBO Chinese owned, whose wife is australian who has become very malaysianized! Friends order the multiple foods for…
Aug 15, 2010
Excess in the Land of Plenty
Arriving soon after a visit to Myanmar, two weeks ago I was in Yangon, the food served at the American Resto in Miami, Bahamas Breeze, gives me a great sensation…
Aug 15, 2010
LOVE IN THE TIME OF THE MONSOONS IN BURMA
LOVE IN THE TIME OF MONSOON IN BURMA AUGUST 2010 I felt that I may not have another chance to visit Myanmar/Burma in the near future, so took this chance…
Aug 15, 2010
C’est la Vie….
Does this man deserve a holiday? People, who have known me for a while, still are not sure what is that I do, which takes me to exotic places on…
Aug 15, 2010
Where is Dr Aung Khant?
After this wonderful trip to KL and Myanmar, and a nice flight back to Paris from KL, I want to put down the days of love and affection and fearlessness…
Aug 15, 2010
Good Bye.. to my favourite Part of Asia
""> 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false A FAREWELL TO KL AND POINTS BEYOND… It is a strange sensation going to a country, knowing that…
Jul 15, 2010
Yet another Adios
Get Your Own Map View Larger Map Another lover of Cuba, the great Poet Pablo Neruda.. had written Se sabe que el que vuelve no se fue, y asi la…
Jul 15, 2010
False Indians of Cuba .. the so called Tainos
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Jun 15, 2010
The Origins of Obesity in America
We can offer a thousand explanations, but one thing is clear, Americans are overweight and Obese.. and the trend is not reversing itself.... As an Endocrinologist and a person interested…
May 15, 2010
The Magical Surrealism of being with INDIOS, the natives of America
I am virtually in the middle of nowhere and it would be difficult for someone does not understand the silence of space, or if you live in a country where…
May 15, 2010
WELCOME TO THE STATES SAYS THE IMMIGRATION OFFICER
For Frequent Fliers to the USA, I strongly recommend the programme Global Entry. I entered the Immigration Hall and it took me no more than sixty seconds to get cleared,…