May 15, 2011
LIFE STYLE CHANGE FOR TYPE 2 DIABETES
What is lifestyle Change for a patient with Diabetes? A patient with Type 2 Diabetes is usually given a lot of information but rarely given tools to understand why they…
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.
May 15, 2011
LOTUS, GIVERNY, MONET, YOGA, DUTY TO MANKIND
LOTUS, GIVERNY, YOGA, DUTY TO MANKIND On this Sunday, a short ride of less than about 60km from Paris, and you are at the village of Giverny, where the Impressionist…
May 15, 2011
PLASTICITY AND THE BRAIN: A BASIS FOR YOGA CURE
PLASTICITY AND THE BRAIN: A BASIS FOR YOGA CURE? Brain was viewed as a static organ in the body until as recent as the 1980s. We can now say with…
May 15, 2011
YOGA IN KUALA LUMPUR: LIFESTYLE COACH OF MALAYSIA
In these modern times, when changes are occurring at a mind boggling speed and technology and its benefits overwhelming us; why is that all of us, young and old, look…
May 15, 2011
Chinese in Malaysia.. They Eat Well, Dont they?
You are lucky to have befriended a chinese family in the food business, said my best friend in Asia, who lives in Kuala Lumpur. If you had befriended any one…
May 15, 2011
YOGA IN MALAYSIA
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE All Efforts at Self Improvement is Yoga. Men and Women are confronted by existential questions about Happiness, Tranquility in Life and question…
May 15, 2011
HAPPINESS COMPASSION THE WEB WE WEAVE
HAPPINESS, ONE WAY TO ACHIEVE IT Everyone, whether from the North or the South, from the city or the rural area, from a rich or a poor society, from a…
Apr 15, 2011
Who are the Multnomah as in Multnomah Falls?
Who are the people Multnomah Falls and where are they? after whom Multnomah Falls are named? When the famed duo Lewis and Clark came up this way 200 odd years…
Apr 15, 2011
FRIENDLY SINGAPOUR.. YES COMPARED TO NORTH KOREA
During my few hours here in this place, I was without provocation told that Visitors have to be considerate of the Singaporeans! This to me shows their emotional immaturity and…
Apr 15, 2011
Diversity in America.. the most beautiful aspect of being here
Within a matter of hours, I had gone from Spanish voices and mexican indian faces to a plethora of japanese faces with announcements in Japanese... did i travel long? No.…
Apr 15, 2011
Intrusion into Personal LIfe by Wire Less Internet
I am writing this, sitting INSIDE a bus, while the middle aged levantine (irani?) driver is negotiating through the traffic. We are still in Vancouver, Canada and our destination is…
Apr 15, 2011
Tale of Traveler: A Never Ending Story
Today at the Paris CDG airport, I looked at the Asian Travelers, young men and women disembarking after long flights from Far East.. I tried to analyze my feelings..I was…
Mar 15, 2011
Tired of London? No, not for now.
I have not felt so content being in a city, for a long time.. Not this is not my beloved Havana, where I know the nooks and crannies and the…
Mar 15, 2011
SOLITUDE IS NOT LONELINESS
HOW SOLITUDE SHAPES YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS This is a continuation of my previous post: Network in Social Network Occasionally, an email arrives inviting to join Face Book or some of the…
Mar 15, 2011
Net work in Social Network
Social Networking on the NET In the olden days, let us say before the year 2000, there was Qualitative Networking: person to person; consideration for the other; relationships, visiting each…
Mar 15, 2011
Endocrinologist/Medical Anthropologist, an insight into the life of one
Wandering Medical Anthropologist and Endocrinologist: A prescription for a Stress Free Life Day 1 March 4 th , 2011 EuroStar. Paris Gare du Nord to St Pancras, London. 2h 32…
Mar 15, 2011
A Visit to the British Museum: Grandeur and Longing
thai golden café, museum street, central London visit to the british museum the same imposing columns, that greeted a young medical student from the antipodes you enter, the first turn…
Mar 15, 2011
What all Happens in the course of One day?
HOW MUCH HAPPENS IN A DAY Cuanto pasa en un dia. title of a poem by Pablo Neruda from his collection Extravagaria, translated by Alastair Reid… “But, in one day,…