Category: Alternative Voice

It is a rare child who does not love chocolate and most of us carry that love affair into adulthood to some degree. Our tastes may become more refined as we age, but the love affair continues. As a child we’re really talking about milk chocolate. The dark stuff comes later. As a child too, […]

A welcome addition to Sanur’s culinary repertoire was the recent opening of Spice by Chris Salans.  Having in the past referred to the ‘Culinary Curse of Sanur’, a seemingly psychic law that, apart from the conspicuous exception of Massimo Sacco, makes it hard for an aspiring restaurateur to prosper significantly in the town, my hope is that master-chef Chris Salans of  the Mozaic reaturant in Ubudwill succeed […]

A good annual check-up is common sense at any age. Over 40 you’d be a fool not to, and at my age you almost deserve anything you get if you don’t. That said, do I follow my own advise? Foolishly I do not.   I’d lay odds that I’m not alone in this, particularly here in […]

As Without So WithinhellipThe Promise Perils of NanoTech Just as we are starting to get our minds to contemplate infinity and what lies beyond the Big Bang so to too do we start to grasp the faintest glimmerings of Quantum and the infinitesimally small Of course the metaphysically minded of us probably know or have some experience of both already albeit without the scientific trimmings Wersquove long fantasized about what we could do with the very small For many our thoughts immediately go to the amazing and seemingly limitless medical possibilities Directing healing medications to places hitherto inaccessible and vanishing tumours become realities The thing about Quantum though is nobody quite knows for sure what happens there So we need to have a carehellip When it comes to food for example we may thin

Sugar Season Itrsquos Everywhere itrsquos Addictive It is a common scene Therersquos a birthday in the office you and your coworkers have all chipped in for a cake your daughter made cookies for a party and yoursquore in trouble if you donrsquot dig in its Easter itrsquos Thanksgiving its Christmas itrsquos the New Year itrsquos a box of chocolates for the one you lovehellip itrsquos any celebration you care to name and cakes and candy are arriving thick and fast Sugar is everywhere It is celebration it is festivity it is love It is also dangerous Recent studies show that sugar much more than salt contributes to the development of cardiovascular disease Unlike the weak much debated arguments against salt sugar has very real significant and immediate metabolic effects that are not good for you dese

Detoxification ndash Taking the Easy Way Out Everyday our bodies are under assault living as we do in an era of relentless toxic exposure from heavy metals plastics pesticides and additives or processes of one kind or another to our foods leading all too often to obesity and chronic ill health Small wonder then if after 30 years or so of toxic overload so many of us succumb to the great debilitating diseases of our age heart attack cancer and diabetes Various means of minimizing or lowering this toxic load are possible and the good news is that that they dont necessarily have to be unpleasantly radical Fasting for instance is supremely effective In fact it is the only true cure for all diseases The trouble with that is that it only works when you dont eat So while you may not die of cancer you will die of starvation Colonic irrigation liver purges and stringent diets can and do work if properly applied but these are n

Sanur on the Cusp ndash But of What Sanur is the grande dame of Balis resorts and the historical locus of much of Balis interaction with foreigners and their traditional entry point to Bali The town itself has a distinct air of prosperity and benign selfconfidence due perhaps to the fact that the town is pretty much a theocracy run by a group of Brahmin families instead of the customary aristocratic house For many foreigners here Sanur had descended into a genteel tropical torpor which suited some but not most With the coming of the bypass the town was effectively bisected while the rest of Bali sped by on their way to more leisurefilled and businesslike environments North and South of the town The effect of this has in fact been good for Sanur in that a protected and extremely well positioned crescent has been created between the ocean and the bypass bounded in

The Cow Most Successful Most Miserable of SpeciesFood 20 is Nigh Will Daisy be Free at Last That many of us believe we are headed a dystopic world seems clear from the fact that not a week goes by without a book movie or cable TV series being put out depicting some new or rehashed variation on a dystopic theme Visions of the future dystopic or utopic have ever haunted our imaginations Dystopias really came into their own mid 20th century with Huxleys eugenic vision ldquoBrave New Worldrdquo 1931 and Orwells totalitarian nightmare ldquo1984rdquo in 1949 By mid 1960s with Kubricks Dr Strangelove followed by a succession of blockbuster disaster movies the genre had come of age Of note was a book by Harry Harrison in 1966 entitled ldquoRoom More Roomrdquo The story was basically a detec