Greek resident Stomatis Moraitis was about 65 years old when American doctors diagnosed him with lung cancer. He was predicted to live no more than 6-12 months. After refusing aggressive treatment, ...

A HOT DRY WIND blew as I waited for a pickup at the airport. “There is no respect for punctuality on Ikaria,” I would be told later, and this was delightfully true. One of the more remote Greek ...

Greece is one of those countries where every view looks like a screensaver, be it the sun, food, and idyllic beaches of Crete, or the underwater caves and sea turtles of Corfu. Every traveler has a ...

Stamatis Moraitis was in his mid-60s when doctors in the United States told him that the tumours in his lungs were incurable, ...

My family is from the Greek island of Ikaria, a Blue Zone renowned for the longevity of its inhabitants. To us, garlic has long been more than "just" an ingredient. Garlic is one of the defining ...

Volunteers hold signs of thank you to George Stamas with first delivery packed bags of groceries ready to take to the mountains for the elderly donated by GJK Cleaning facility Services GJK Facility ...

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