Mar 15, 2013
UNIVERSAL CONCEPTS OF SPIRITUALITY
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…
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.
Mar 15, 2013
YOGA AND NUTRITION: PHILOSOPHICAL COUNSELLING AMONG NATIVE INDIANS OF AMERICA
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE YOGA AND NUTRITION: PHILOSOPHICAL COUNSELLING AMONG NATIVE INDIANS OF AMERICAS Yoga Sutra 1.15 of Patanjali states: Disinterestedness is the consciousness of the…
Mar 15, 2013
THAI AIRWAYS VERSUS UNITED AIRLINES: NO COMPARISON
Recently I had the chance to experience on board services on both United, flying a one hour 15 minute flight from Omaha to Chicago ; and a few hours later…
Mar 15, 2013
HOW TO AVOID HEART DISEASE,DIABETES AND CANCER IN INDONESIA OR AMONG AMERICAN INDIANS
Whereas Emirati or Pakistani general population have less knowledge about what constitutes Health and how to avoid being Sick, Americans are inundated with information about health and are cognizant of…
Mar 15, 2013
AMERICA IS THE FUTURE
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…
Mar 15, 2013
EUROPEAN AUSSIE TOURISTS SEEN AS BEGGARS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA
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…
Mar 15, 2013
A WANDERING JEW’S PESACH: SO HAPPY TO CELEBRATE, SO HAPPY TO REMEMBER
This evening, all over the world, Jewish People of all hues, nationalities, religious beliefs will celebrate PESACH.. Over the course of years, I have been lucky to celebrate Passover Seder…
Mar 15, 2013
SEARCHING FOR SEDER IN BRUSSELS
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Searching for Seder in Brussels I used to be very active in Jewish Student affairs when I was at school as well…
Mar 15, 2013
MIND BODY MEDICINE AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE THIS COURSE IS ONE OF HARVARD’S HIGHEST RATED CME COURSES CME CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION Obviously the doctors and other Health/Disease Care providers…
Mar 15, 2013
CULTURE, NUTRITION, METHANE GAS AND OBESITY
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE I have been fortunate to work with American Indians in the USA. Because of their uniqueness, I tried to learn as much…
Mar 15, 2013
IT IS ALL IN THE GUTS: MICROBIOME AND OBESITY
I had written a blog regarding the importance of various types of Microbiome that inhabit our guts as paying passengers just a few hours ago. Imagine my excitement when I…
Mar 15, 2013
DR JESUS ALVAREZ THE ASTURIAN, THE GENIAL GIANT OF BARACOA, CUBA
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE DR JESUS ALVAREZ OF BARACOA A PASSOVER REMEMBRANCE 15 NISSAN 5773 I knew Jesus Alvarez well. A genial giant of a man…
Feb 15, 2013
THE NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS IN REMOTE MEXICO: KONG HEE FATT CHOY , CHUC MUNG NAM MOI
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…
Feb 15, 2013
THE SUPERVITAMIN D OR IS IT A HORMONE?
VITAMIN D THE NEW SUPERVITAMIN BUT IS IT A HORMONE? Should Vitamin D be renamed Sunshine Hormone? Vitamin D3 is synthesized in the skin during summer under the influence of…
Feb 15, 2013
IT IS WITH THE HEART THAT ONE SEES
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…
Jan 15, 2013
THE YEAR 2013 HAS BEGUN WELL
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…
Jan 15, 2013
INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE: NOSTALGIA FOR NAMIBIA
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…
Jan 15, 2013
RITUALS AND THE DISAPPEARANCE OF LIMINALITY : JANUARY 2013
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…