The man who ate everything: Confessions of a recovering food addict

Sunday Inquirer Magazine/FEATURES Q&A/Interview by Ma. Ceres P. DoyoThere is a world of difference between loving the goodness of food and indulging in it in an extreme way to meet one’s needs other than simple hunger, nutrition and pleasure. Food addiction is a disorder seldom spoken about. Persons who are morbidly obese because of food addiction are sometimes wrongly judged as gluttons. There are food addicts who can maintain a normal weight...

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Cool school for IP students

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo TALAANDIG, SUBANEN, Badjao, Mandaya, Mansaka, Tagakaolo, Mangyan, Aeta, Tiduray, Bagobo, Ifugao… Many of the Philippines’ indigenous communities are represented in this special campus. Here about a hundred young people from some 30 tribes from all over the Philippines are studying to earn college degrees in order to become useful to their communities. The Pamulaan Center for Indigenous Peoples...

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Killer avenue, deadly U-turn

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo WE ARE in shock, we are angry, we feel the loss. After university professor, media colleague and friend Lourdes “Chit” Estella Simbulan died in a vehicular crash on Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City last Friday afternoon, there are, again, these hasty moves by authorities to find solutions to prevent more of such accidents.Chit was not the first one to lose her life on that killer highway, said to be the widest in the Philippines. It is about 12-kilometers long, but—hold your breath—it is...

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Pacquiao fighting poverty

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. DoyoFiled Under: Pacquiao, Poverty, Hospitals and Clinics, Government Aid, Benigno Aquino III (Most Read) IT WAS not his protestation of strength, speed and fist power that impressed me and gave me a hmmm moment. It was what he said about the greatest fight of his life. And he was not referring to any of the countless matches with formidable pugilists that brought him multiple world boxing titles and proved him to be among the world’s greatest boxers of all time.It was what Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao...

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Hearf of Mary Villa: Where mothering is optional

Sunday Inquirer Magazine/FEATURES/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo Filed Under: Women, Charity, Overseas Employment, Religions “HAVE it aborted.” “How do I know I am the father?” “You have brought shame to this family.” “I am a married man. I can’t be there for the baby.” “There are no maternity benefits for you and you have to resign from your job.” What painful words for a woman who is pregnant, unwed and with no one to turn to. Amidst...

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Boracay Atis barred in their ancestral land

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo Filed Under: indigenous people, Tourism, Conflicts (general), Laws (Most Read) PUT ASIDE bleeding-heart sentimentalism and romanticism. Here are questions that are crying out for answers:Why are the Atis, who have lived in Boracay long before the paradisiacal island became world-renowned, being barred from occupying a piece of land that the government turned over on Feb. 11, 2011 to their community...

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