Susan Burke March
Articles by Susan Burke March :
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Vaccines: The myths, facts, and foolishness, persist …
A favorite expat online forum carried a post with a simple query: “Do we need proof of current yellow fever and typhoid vaccinations to enter Ecuador from Colombia?” (No). This… -
Should women sit like a man? A female orthopedic surgeon says “Yes!”
By Elizabeth Kiefer What does it mean to sit like a man? If you live in a city with a subway, your mind might leap to the scourge of “manspreading,” in… -
Good fats, bad fats, trans fats, and alternative fats
Author’s note: Fat is a controversial topic, but let’s cut through the chatter and delve into fat facts. This is the first of a three-part series about fat. Artificial trans… -
Medical scans explained: A look inside the body
The National Institutes of Health: News In Health November 2019 Have you ever had to get an X-ray, MRI, or other medical scan? Do you know what these tests involve?… -
Helping keep Cuenca beautiful: Expats and Cuencanos join forces to eradicate graffiti
By Susan Burke March Over the past few weeks, you may have noticed a big improvement in El Centro. The city government has sponsored a number of ‘mingas’ in recent… -
Avoiding dairy? An update on ‘alternative’ dairy products
Dairy milk sales are down, but sales of plant “milk alternatives” are growing. There’s an ongoing fight in the U.S. for the right to call plant-based milk substitutes ‘milk’ with… -
Update on vaping: Experts find common thread leading to deadly lung damage
By Erin Brodwin for Business Insider After 39 deaths and more than 2,000 cases of vaping-related lung illness, officials have homed in on a potential cause. Investigators said vitamin E… -
What’s a ‘superfood’? Have you tried chochos?
I typed “superfood” into my browser and got 370 million ‘hits’ in 0.70 seconds! What’s a “superfood?” According to the Oxford Dictionary, a superfood is “a nutrient-rich food considered to… -
We know that secondhand smoke is bad, but what about thirdhand smoke?
We’ve known for decades that cigarette smoking deadly. But tobacco has been around for eons, growing wild in the Americas for nearly 8,000 years. According to the Cancer Council, around… -
Community gardens have a place in improving public health
By Mark Mahoney The Community Gardening Network, a project of Sustainable Tallahassee [Florida] in partnership with the IFAS/Leon County Extension Services participated in the recent 2019 Farm Tour by holding… -
The ‘Biggest Loser’ returns — should you watch?
Maybe you have seen my presentations on ‘best’ and ‘worst’ diets for weight loss. I always focus on eating for energy, and especially when you’re working out, to fuel your… -
Think it’s safe for pregnant women to smoke weed? Don’t rely on this study
By Alice Callahan Fifty years ago this summer, Melanie Dreher, a registered nurse and young graduate student in anthropology, landed in rural Jamaica to study how people there were using… -
What’s ‘normal’ anyway? Body temperature, blood pressure, and blood sugar
Body Temperature. Have you ever wondered how 98.6° Fahrenheit or 37° Centigrade became “normal” body temperature? In the 1850s, a German physician named Carl Wunderlich collected data on 25,000 patients,…