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.
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On the way to the Malecon to watch the sunset, i was so happy to see this 1939 Ford and the friendly owners.. I stay just a hundred metres away…
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Porfirio Diaz the Mexican Dictator seemed to have implied; Pobre Mexico, tan circa de Estados Unidos y tan lejos de Dios We, in Cuba, has something to offer the poor…
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…
I have already quoted the poem in another blog.. but today is 29 October and tomorrow 30 October.. Both pleasant days of October Especially this October which has been more…
I was visiting my friends BB and D who live in a small village of Sankt Mikael near the small town of Bleiburg along the Austrian alps. Both are natives…
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KINDNESS IN THE TIME OF DIFFICULTIES I have always wondered why the Cubans who live in the island are so kind and demonstrate a sense of solidarity that one rarely…
The bigger killer of human beings all across the world is Cardiovascular Diseases and in this study it has been pointed out that the MORTALITY from Cardiovascular Diseases (DEATH) is…
When I was finishing my post graduate studies in Medicine (Endocrinology) my contemporaries were busy scouting for future residences and private practices. I was intent on an International Career which…
I had been looking forward to my return to the island, with a brief sojourn in Miami where I enjoyed spending a couple of days in the Everglades National Park.…
On the day arrival, a family, an aunt, two nieces, the one below in her third of LAW studies arrived and we had a lovely dinner together and then followed…
The answer is quick: Not that easy Where I stay in Miami, in the Kendall area, there are a variety of supermarkets within easy reach, say within 10 km. There…
When my interest began in the additives and chemicals to the food we ingest and the continuing rise of non communicable diseases such as Type 2 Diabetes and non-auto immune…
When I first arrived in Miami as a student, the reputation of Venezuela was that of a rich country with lots of its citizens owning prime real estate in Miami,…
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…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Can Plastics cause Diabetes? Asked a prominent British Endocrine Researcher. The audience was aghast, such a relationship was unthinkable. Of course now…
