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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Older men with higher levels of sex hormones could be less religious, study suggests Amount of testosterone and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) in a man's body may influence how religious he is…
Recently I had a chance to stay, for the umpteenth time at the Bristow Lighthouse Hotel facing the Arabian Sea in Fort Cochin. Rajesh Rajan the GM had organized a…
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HUMAN TOUCH as a mystic, therapeutic and culturally relevant symbol, is receiving some scientific attention as well. I have just left Cuba and one of the first things I note…
The pundits on this side of the Gulf pontificate about democracy in the island of Cuba, make grandiose pronouncements (remember, The Final Hour of Castro, a book published in the…
Between UmonHon Indians and an anticipated Asian meal at the KLCC in Kuala Lumpur, I wanted to feed my Spirits and who better to listen to than SADHGURU? If you…
I am an Endocrinologist, a physician specializing in the Metabolism of the body, about the balance of various hormones is of interest to me. Very early on in my training,…
SINGAPORE CHANGI airport consistently wins all awards for being the best Airport in the world, a distinction it holds on to, even after these many years. USA is far behind…
only dedicated travel fans would understand why it took me 52 hours to go from Miami to Kuala Lumpur. There are multiple one stop journeys to KL from Miami: British…
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Mun Ching Yong has been a friend of mine for over a decade when we met on an Air Asia Flight to Siem Reap from Kuala Lumpur in February 2008.…
0 0 1 494 2816 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 23 6 3304 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Tumultuous arrival in La Habana The flight…
0 0 1 257 1469 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 12 3 1723 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE The first meal in La Habana The…
0 0 1 980 5589 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 46 13 6556 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE LAMENTO SOCIALISTA EN CUBA AND LAMENTO CAPITALISTA…
0 0 1 597 3407 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 28 7 3997 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE --> From the BBC The Dirty Secret…
I received this newspaper clip from Malaysia this morning. A legislator was in fact praising the Obesity epidemic in the country saying it shows that the country is prosperous compared…
INVOLVEMENT AT WORK: WHERE THE BORDERS BETWEEN WORK, SOCIETY AND JOY MELT AWAY, TOUCHING ON THE SPIRITUAL WORLD I am at a purpose built office building in a small town…
