Susan Burke March
By Mike Weber We live in a world of immediate gratification. So, this short article seeks to give some quick perspective on eating. We will explore some ideas about how […]
Editor’s note: As published in CuencaHighLife.com on September 2, Ecuador is the world’s top banana exporter, and there are more than 7,000 growers and 2.5 million jobs dependent on a […]
Author’s Note: As I update this column (which originally ran on March 15, 2018) I’m even more concerned about e-cigarettes than I was a year and a half ago. CBS […]
Editor’s note: Michelle’s Foods of The Americas series on squash continues with Part III, a history of mythology associated with squash, and how pumpkin, originating in the Americas, is today […]
Susan’s note: I admit it, I’m a National Public Radio fan. I take an hour-long walk in the morning and listen to podcasts of NPR shows I’ve missed. Yesterday I […]
In November of 2018, an outbreak of measles in in the Orthodox Jewish community in the Williamsburg and Borough Park neighborhoods in Brooklyn, New York foretold the beginning of an […]
By Amy Gorin You hear about calories all the time. But what are they really? A calorie is technically the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of one gram of […]
One of the reasons many of us fail at weight loss is that we try to use a short-term approach to solve a long-term problem. We secretly believe we can […]
The Ancient Egyptians are said to have first developed toothpaste made from ashes, eggshells, pumice and water. The Greeks and Romans added crushed bones and oyster shells. And as reported […]
Could the foods you eat help determine when you start menopause? They might, says a study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. Researchers found that women who […]
By Bob Itami Chimborazo Volcano (‘Taita’ or father by the indigenous people of the area) is the highest mountain in Ecuador at 6268 meters (20,564 feet) and the summit is […]
By Ted Kyle Brush your teeth, wash your hands, take a shower. These are all good, healthy ways to clean up. Dietary cleansing and detox rituals? Not so much. So […]



















