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 EUROPEAN/AMERICAN/AUSTRALIAN TOURISTS TO ASIA SEEN AS BEGGARS Last year an astonishing one billion (nearly one out six humans on this planet) took…
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…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE All who wander are not lost. It is a line rather well known among Travellers, it is from a poem (once again…
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…
Normal 0 false false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Long before these sentiments became known through the words of St Exupery, the sentiments had been known to the Indians. On…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE KONG HEE FATT CHOY, CHUC MUNG NAM MOI AND WHO ELSE IS CELEBRATING THEIR NEW YEAR. If you think that Indian tribes…
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,…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE PATIENT CENTERED PEER EDUCATION AND HEALTH CARE…AMONG THE KICKAPOO/KIKAPU OF TEXAS/MEXICO The 10-seater van was fairly new, had Mexican License plates. Mena…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE A WEEK IN THE LIFE OF AN ENDOCRINOLOGIST TRIP REPORT: ONE-WEEK IN AMERICA I was still a student in Australia when I…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE LIFESTYLE AND CANCER While the MORTALITY (death) from cancer has declined in the USA (Treatment and Early diagnosis), the incidence (new cases,…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE It was on the first few days of a fresh New Year in la Habana, when someone introduced me to Augusto Monterroso…
Normal 0 false false false false EN-US JA X-NONE INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE: NOSTALGIA FOR NAMIBIA When I was reading Anthropology at London, had a chance to visit the San people of…
There are always some Constant Stars in my skies: American Indians Cuba Family in Miami The new star for 2012 was certainly PJ and Indonesia. Malaysia, Myanmar, India and Iran…
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…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL TIME The greatest gift that I can give to my friends is TIME. That is why I…
GRATITUDE TOWARDS MY TEACHERS American Indians, as always Lately, MC in KL, PKJ in Bogor When the student is ready, a teacher would appear. Instead of roaming around the world…
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…
These are six days of culinary delights in Indonesia,all organized by my friend, PJ. I never ate alone and always there were more than four or five sharing lunch or…
