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.
I am an Endocrinologist, a person who studies why people put on weight, among other metabolic dysfunctions of the body. I am also an Anthropologist, interested in the influences of…
When I left my home in La Habana, Cuba for Miami, the day before I was to take QR 778 to Doha, I was already full of anticipation, as is…
I am a Frequent Traveller and my world is Latin America, North America, Europe, Israel and Asia. Whenever I find a hotel or staff, I become attached to them, and…
INDIA is the source of both Patanjali and Buddha; of Yoga and Ayurveda.. an immense resource for your soul. In a place like Fort Cochin, one can feel the spiritual…
After a very pleasant two days in Fort Cochin, I was about to leave Cochin, Kerala in India for Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. I handed my passport to the middle…
Average traveller in the USA has become accustomed to accepting poor service (American Airlines staffed by Grandmas, as described by HE Al-Bakr CEO of Qatar Airways, my favoured airline) or…
I do not remember when my love affair with DT in KL began! I had been visiting KL on a regular basis since 2008, but almost always stayed at my…
One fringe benefit of being a International Humanitarian Physician who is an Anthropologist and is Jewish, is that the Jewish aspect is stressed a lot in countries where the inhabitants…
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0 0 1 708 4036 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 33 9 4735 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Being an Endocrinologist, this article drew my…
0 0 1 335 1912 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 15 4 2243 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Effects of n−3 Fatty Acid Supplements in…
GREETINGS FROM ISRAEL. SHANAH TOVAH TIKKETEVU. It is so nice, my first ever time, that I am in the Land of Israel for the Jewish New Year I came across…
I have nurtured a love for smaller jewish communities around the world ever since I became aware of them and was able to visit them. Currently I live in an…
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There is a variety of reasons why people get high blood pressure HBP. The history of 130/80 as the normal (which was revised in 2017 to 120/80 as being the…
I have been lucky to visit Israel three times so far in 2018 and more importantly to be present there on 1 Tishrei 5779..the beginning of the Jewish New Year.…
How wonderful it is to be back in La Habana, Cuba. I can proudly say and feel, I live in Havana, Cuba. I will upload pictures of my first 24…
0 0 1 167 955 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 7 2 1120 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE how tethered we have become to the…
