Oct 15, 2019
CUBA EN MI CORAZON . LIKE THEY SAY APPLE OF MY EYE
I received this photograph from the Middle East. I was overjoyed to see a geographical impression of our America imposed upon the open eyes.. and behold CUBA is right there…
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Oct 15, 2019
LEAVING BRISTOW’S LIGHTHOUSE BUNGALOW IN FORT COCHIN, KERALA, INDIA
I had a delightful 10 day stay at the only hotel facing the Arabian Sea at the historic town of Fort Cochin, near the Indian city of Ernakulum in Kerala,…
Oct 15, 2019
HUMAN BEINGS OF THIS PLANET MY FRIEND TONY
We had become friends when we were still medical students. and shared the same hospital when we were training to become specialist physicians. It was not Medicine that brought us…
Oct 15, 2019
LONGINGS ANORANSA SAUDADE FOR IRAN
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE SAUDADE FOR IRAN Saudade is my favourite Portuguese word, which has been translated into many forms of nostalgia, anoransa en Spanish, longings…
Sep 15, 2019
A MAGICAL DAY AT THE SLOVENIA-ITALY-AUSTRIA BORDER OF MOUNTAINS AND LAKES
I was visiting my friends BB and D who live in a small village of Sankt Mikael near the small town of Bleiburg along the Austrian alps. Both are natives…
Sep 15, 2019
LAST DAY OF JEWISH YEAR 5779 . WHAT A LOVELY END!
WHAT A LOVELY END Loves have only grown.. CUBA my home, the numerous brothers and sister that I toil for.. a glass of Chenin Blanc from an Indian winery, ah…
Sep 15, 2019
CAN PLASTICS CAUSE TYPE 2 DIABETES? YES OF COURSE
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Can Plastics cause Diabetes? Asked a prominent British Endocrine Researcher. The audience was aghast, such a relationship was unthinkable. Of course now…
Sep 15, 2019
THE FEASTS OF HAVANA CUBA : A GLIMPSE OF LIVES HAPPILY LIVED
After I had delivered a talk at the annual conference of Endocrinology in 2019, an Argentine doctor said she needed an explanation: This is my first visit to Cuba, she…
Sep 15, 2019
THE TRAGEDY OF HOW ORDINARY PEOPLE BECOME REFUGEES
When I first arrived in Miami as a student, the reputation of Venezuela was that of a rich country with lots of its citizens owning prime real estate in Miami,…
Sep 15, 2019
A PHYSICIAN-ANTHROPOLOGIST CONSUMES ONLY ORGANIC FOOD FOR FOUR DAYS AND THIS IS HIS REPORT
When my interest began in the additives and chemicals to the food we ingest and the continuing rise of non communicable diseases such as Type 2 Diabetes and non-auto immune…
Sep 15, 2019
HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO ACCESS AND CONSUME ORGANIC FOOD IN MIAMI
The answer is quick: Not that easy Where I stay in Miami, in the Kendall area, there are a variety of supermarkets within easy reach, say within 10 km. There…
Sep 15, 2019
Oh HAVANA . WHAT A DELIGHTFUL WEEK SEPTEMBER 2019
On the day arrival, a family, an aunt, two nieces, the one below in her third of LAW studies arrived and we had a lovely dinner together and then followed…