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 We look at Doctors as guardians of our health, and expect them to follow what they preach: Eat Well and Exercise. A…
It is not often that I get excited about shops and boutiques, but I have to admire when someone takes something so quotidian such as Coffee and make it so…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE RASTAFARIANS AND DIABETES CAN A TRUE RASTA GET DIABETES? The beautiful island of Jamaica in the West Indies is visited by millions…
the literate man of sioux city surviving in a non literate city the weekend was upon us, the Americans were celebrating the Mexican equivalent of the Day of the Dead,…
DIA DE LOS MEURTOS DAY OF THE DAY TOMB SWEEPING DAY ANCESTORS DAY AND IN THE USA IT IS MEMORIAL DAY A message arrived from Irkutsk this morning from a…
Steve Avery tries to read about 900 pages per month,and as you can see, his literary taste does not fall into any particular genre He notices the substance of the…
I had been a little dissatisfied by my hair becoming unmanageable. I was still lamenting the loss of The Hair Dresser of Bangsar, but this morning decided that I have…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE FOOD FASCISM Is a fashionable term used, especially among the Middle Class Literati to denote imposing the unscientific but popular health/diet systems…
When you enter the Indian country, you are in a totally different world. Each time I feel I am entering a ring surrounded by wise men and women and if…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE The alarm went off at 0600 AM, I had already packed my bags, so it was easy to be ready to leave…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN ENDOCRINOLOGIST Starting the day off with readings from Yoga Sutra, commentary by Yogendra from Yoga…
The breakfast was being prepared as I came back from my brisk morning walk. Machacada, which is sliced meat; and specially prepared Refried Beans for me (without pork portion, but…
AMONG THE LAKOTA OF CHEYENNE RIVER SIOUX TRIBE RESERVATION IN SOUTH DAKOTA I had just arrived at the home of my colleague, when he announced that a Medicine Man from…
Malaysia likes to pride itself as Truly Asia, but the influx of superficial western experiences, cities in Malaysia, such as KL and Malacca are beginning to look their counterparts elsewhere.…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE The Incredible Indonesian Hospitality of the Humble Man of Bogor I have been lucky to experience hospitality to a degree that one…
Lunch Gado Gado, Indonesian Salad Chicken, South Sumatra Style Dried Fish with cucumber and carrots Always eat with Good People, surrounded by nice scenery Dinner at De Leuit Restaurant, Bogor,…
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 EN-US JA X-NONE EAT LESS AND LOVE MORE LIM THE REMARKABLE HORTICULTURALIST OF BANGKOK I have been lucky enough to meet some special people this…
