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 LIFESTYLE AND CANCER While the MORTALITY (death) from cancer has declined in the USA (Treatment and Early diagnosis), the incidence (new cases,…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE A WEEK IN THE LIFE OF AN ENDOCRINOLOGIST TRIP REPORT: ONE-WEEK IN AMERICA I was still a student in Australia when I…
INVISIBLE HELP FROM THE AMERICAN INDIANS Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Once you have been working with American Indians you begin to notice and understand symbolism of…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE OUR HAIRDRESSER IN KING’S CROSS LONDON One advantage of Loyalty programmes for travellers is that one gets an occasional free flight or…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE PATIENT CENTERED PEER EDUCATION AND HEALTH CARE…AMONG THE KICKAPOO/KIKAPU OF TEXAS/MEXICO The 10-seater van was fairly new, had Mexican License plates. Mena…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Structural Defect (Kleisha) YOGA and Native American Indian concept of Character Defect One pleasure of learning about YOGA from my friend MC…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE SYMBOLIC TALK AMONG AMERICAN INDIAN PATIENTS: A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER NEEDS TO BECOME CULTURALLY COMPETENT. A Group of young girl athletes from…
Walking along this pleasant city, I was amazed at the similarities (at least superficially) that meets a visitor to the central part of the city. Retired moslem women from Maghreb,…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE An Evening Out Dining in Miami We are in the habit of lamenting the disappearing scene of restaurants, we get attached to…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE A CUBAN ANTHROPOLOGIST AT MADRID BARAJAS AIRPORT I am catching a flight to MIA today via FRA. Arriving just one our before…
I had received a letter from my good friend, the humble man of Bogor, Pak Joe. He wanted me to come to Indonesia, and prepare and present with him a…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE ENCOUNTERS WITH THE ENCHANTED IN INDONESIA Indonesia is an enchanting land, mainly because of the open mindedness of its people and welcome…
These are six days of culinary delights in Indonesia,all organized by my friend, PJ. I never ate alone and always there were more than four or five sharing lunch or…
SOME friends find my professional role as a Lifestyle Coach (Endocrinologist plus Medical Anthropologist amounts to that!) and the sumptuous eating that I am so very fond of, a little…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE The incredible Hospitality of the Indonesians The Sentul Healthy Happy Living Group of Pak J. I am just finishing my third trip…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE SENTUL HEALTHY HAPPY LIVING AND PERSONAL HEALTH During each of my visits to Bogor, the focus of the conversations has been Personal…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE GOOD YEAR FOR TRAVEL 2012 I had become aware of travel at an early age, after all I had to move countries…
GRATITUDE TOWARDS MY TEACHERS American Indians, as always Lately, MC in KL, PKJ in Bogor When the student is ready, a teacher would appear. Instead of roaming around the world…
