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By Susan Burke March As reported, water usage in Cuenca is up 25 percent, as well as the lack of recent rain. I had heard earlier this week that water usage was up 20 percent, and reached out to my friends on social media to get some top tips for saving water. Please feel free...
Food safety is of paramount importance during this time, but it’s important all year round. Here is a segment of a much longer article published in SeriousEats.com. To read the complete article, click here. Can I get COVID-19 from touching or eating contaminated food? there is currently no evidence that COVID-19 has spread through food...
By Bryan Clark Conspiracy theorists are infecting YouTube and Facebook with bogus theories that 5G mobile internet is responsible for the coronavirus. One prominent anti-5G Facebook group has shared a number of erroneous posts, claiming 5G is the culprit behind a virus that has infected more than 80,000 people worldwide. Its creator, Dutch “UFO researcher”...
By Jaime Moreno What should you do to fight COVID-19? First and foremost, you must understand the disease. Then do not panic. And under no circumstances should you hide information. Ever. The incubation period is within 14 days after exposure. The most common clinical manifestations are: fever (99%), fatigue (70%), dry cough (59%), anorexia (40%),...
By Lisa Drayer Whether you’re housebound for the next couple of weeks from a COVID-19 quarantine, or simply trying to survive a school or work shutdown, you’ll likely be limiting or avoiding trips to the grocery store. So you may be wondering: What are the best foods to buy when you know you’re going to...
Yes, we’re all staying home, trying to flatten the curve and slow the contagious COVID-19 coronavirus. Which got me to thinking — this could be a good time to kick some unhealthy habits and adopt some new healthy ones. Lent began on Wednesday, February 26, and continues through Thursday, April 9. It’s one of the...
Thanks to Ted Kyle, of Conscience Health, for calling our attention to a useful post from the Dietitians of Canada. As Ted wrote in a recent post titled, Pseudoscience in the Midst of a Pandemic, “Perhaps this pandemic can sharpen our critical thinking. Pseudoscience in the midst of a pandemic is really intolerable. But why should...
Last week I reposted an article about food safety — this advice is relevant all year ’round, and certainly now that we all must take extra care to avoid contamination with the COVID-19 respiratory virus. I linked to Brenda Langdon’s important article about this contagion, and her wise prevention advice. Read it here. Readers who...
Drug advertisements. Ugh. By the time they finish listing the side effects, you wonder why they even bother publicizing them? Have you noticed that almost every advertisement on the U.S. news show ’60 Minutes’ is for some pharmaceutical drug, or more recently, for a test to detect colon cancer? But this ad doesn’t sound so...
After reading Brenda Langdon’s excellent article about the Covid-19 virus and sensible precautions everyone can take to stay healthy I’d like to repost my column about food safety. One of the best reasons for living in Cuenca is the variety of vegetables and fruits, the freshness and the cost. Last year we visited Florida, “The Sunshine...
Credit: NIAAA: Understanding the impact of alcohol on human health and well-being For many people, a night of drinking can lead to a painful morning after and the dreaded effects of a hangover. What does science tell us about this phenomenon? What causes the typical symptoms of a hangover? And the question perhaps as old...
By Jaime Moreno The Australian bushfires began in June 2019. As of January 14, 2020, fires burned 186,000 square kilometers, as a reference 65 percent of Ecuador’s area. An estimated one billion animals have been killed. Air quality has dropped to hazardous levels. By January 7, 2020, the smoke had moved 11,000 kilometers across the...
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