Dec 15, 2020
A FULL MOON AND A WELCOME WITH RELIEF OF A NEW YEAR 31.12.2021
on 29th december 2020, the last full moon of the decade appears and as the Indians call it the winter moon or the moon that brings the winter.. I received…
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Dec 15, 2020
THE PUZZLE OF VITAMIN D
THE PUZZLE OF VITAMIN D It was very exciting to study about Vitamin D metabolism while we were medical students. Called Sunshine Vitamin it was manufactured in the skin from…
Dec 15, 2020
WHO WAS WALDEMAR HUFFKINE? BACTERIOLOGISTS, INDIANS INTERESTED IN MEDICAL HISTORY AND JEWS AND SOME PHILATELISTS REMEMBER HIM
The very first time I heard the name WALDEMAR HUFFKINE was when I was offered a STAMP which showed his face and his proper role (but largely forgotten) in the…
Dec 15, 2020
MOROCCO-ISRAELI FRIENDSHIP IS CENTURIES OLD.. A NICE HANUKKAH GIFT OF INCREASED MUTUAL COOPERATION
Jews must have lived in Morocco ever since 70 CE but the definite change came after they were expelled from Spain 1492. Even before the expulsion, there was migration of…
Dec 15, 2020
CELESTIAL MAGIC OF DECEMBER 21
I had been waiting for this day, 21 december 2020. Normally it is just the Winter Solstice. Even in this tropical clime, during this time of the year, the sun…
Dec 15, 2020
NURSES VISITING PATIENTS AT HOME AND RELAYING INFORMATION TO THE CLINIC: A VITAL PART OF HEALTH CARE AND ANTHROPOLOGICALLY APPROPRIATE
This is a presentation I gave to a group of Visiting Nurses/Home Health Nurses. I will write commentaries on each of the slides and hope that many nurses get to…
Dec 15, 2020
TWO PIECES OF ADVICE FROM DIFFERENT. PARTS OF THE WORLD. 31.12.2020
Jeff Bezos, Mr. Amazon, was a precocious kid who once told his grandmother, who was fond of smoking, how to calculate the number of days of life lost by smoking.…
Dec 15, 2020
IF YOU WANT RELIABLE AND TRUTHFUL NEWS, BE PREPARED TO PAY FOR IT
It was one of my professors of Medicine in Miami, Dr Howard Lessner, Olav ha shalom, who said to me: the drug companies would send you lots of free materials…
Nov 15, 2020
AN EXPERIMENT ON MYSELF: HOW MUCH DOES MY BLOOD SUGAR RISE ? RICE BAD FOR YOU? DOES IT MATTER WHO COOKS FOR YOU ? QUALITY OF FOOD?
Australia which gave us some excellent Nutritional leaders and pioneering research in Nutrition, lately has ben sending cut and paste articles on Nutrition on various websites. As Harari would say…
Nov 15, 2020
PLEASE DO NOT COME TO CAMBODIA AND TELL PEOPLE NOT TO EAT RICE… WITHOUT CONTEXT WORDS HAVE NO MEANING (MERLEAU-PONTY)
NUTRITIONAL EXPERTS AND LACK OF CONTEXT I am an Endocrinologist, educated in London, Melbourne and Miami and that doe not mean I would be very successful in Siem Reap, Cambodia…
Nov 15, 2020
WHEN WOULD BRAZILIANS BEGIN TO TREAT THEIR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AS EQUALS? WHOSE LAND IT IS ANYWAY?
The Video is Silent Killer Coronavirus in the Amazon I heard from my Ticuna friends that they were also relying upon the remedies from the Forest to fight this disease.…
Nov 15, 2020
WHAT BROUGHT THE MAGIC OF TRAVEL TO ME ?
En Akaba dejó la huella de su mano en la pared de los abrevaderos. En Gdynia se lamentó por haber perdido sus papeles en una riña de taberna, pero no…