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Por Susan Burke March, MS, RDN, LDN, CDE Existe acumulación de evidencias de que las bebidas azucaradas están vinculadas a la obesidad, el consumo de refrescos está cabeza abajo. En una nueva encuesta de Gallup, el 60% de los estadounidenses dicen que están tratando...
Produced by the Ecuador Tourism Ministry, this video provides a great overview of adventure tourism and outdoor activities in Ecuador. The options include rock climbing, cycling, bird watching, jungle cruising, horseback riding, surfing, and mountain climbing...
By Scott Fugit “When you cease to learn, you cease to live.” As Mark Twain said back in the 1800’s, he could have been talking about expats and expat-wannabes. Wisdom and confidence are close companions. For someone trying to integrate into a foreign culture,...
By Dave Nelson What a great night!!! A few weeks ago Tom suggested El Nopal, a Mexican restaurant, for our Friday night dinner. I like Mexican food, haven't had any since moving here, so overcame my reluctance to go to an unfamiliar place, and agreed. It was small,...
Continuing dry weather has prompted Cuenca utility officials to ask residents to cut back on water usage. Although the call is voluntary, they say restrictions could become mandatory if drought conditions continue. Meanwhile, fire officials say that hundreds of...
By Christopher Lux Cuenca's first Open Studios Art Walk hits the streets of the historic district, Thursday night, October 1. Forty locations, including galleries, studios, shops and restaurants, and 60 artists are participating in the free event which runs from 5...
American-born photographer Thomas Ives has worked for international news and feature magazines for over 38 years. His photo essays and images have appeared in National Geographic, Time, Geo, Stern, Newsweek, Life, Smithsonian, and many others publications. He...
Aunque los cuatro ríos de Cuenca son lo que impresionaron a los colonizadores españoles en el siglo 16 cuando nombraron formalmente la ciudad "Santa Ana de los Cuatros Ríos de Cuenca", la tribu indígena Cañari la identificó de una manera diferente: "Guapondelig" o...
Editor's note: George Lassiter is a retired geology professor and researcher who conducted field studies of Ecuador’s volcanoes in the 1990s. Last month, he wrote on article on the volcanic history of Cotopaxi, click here, and had commented earlier in an article about...
Some property owners along Ecuador’s coast say they are watching beaches disappear before their eyes. Many of them are asking the government for help but are receiving little sympathy. “When I bought my place five years ago, there was at least 50 meters of beach in...
The independent press watchdog organization, Fundamedios, will not be closed after all. Ecuador’s communications secretariat said two weeks ago that Fundamedios had violated its charter as a non-profit organization by engaging in partisan politics and began the...
In a speech before the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday, Ecuador President Rafael Correa criticized the world’s wealthy nations for spending too much time worrying about the politics of developing countries and not enough looking at their own development...
If the alert level at the Cotopaxi volcano is raised to orange, Ecuador’s Ministry of Culture is prepared to protect as much of the country’s history in the area as possible. On Saturday, Ecuador’s Geophysical Institute said that magma continued to rise within the...
The Mitad del Mundo Tattoo Convention in Quito featured 440 Ecuadorian and international artists Friday, Saturday and Sunday, September 25, 26 & 27. The convention was held at the Best Western Grand Plaza Hotel, Shyris at Nacionales Unidades, opposite Quicentro....
Even though it was just for a day, Cuencanos got a real-life glimpse of what a pedestrian-friendly El Centro will look like on Friday. Early Friday morning, a group of architects, university students and city workers laid down grass on one lane of Presidente Borrero...
The European Union’s International Trade Committee (INTA) has approved Ecuador’s a trade agreement with the EU. The agreement now goes to the full EU parliament where it is also expected to be approved. The agreement, expected to go into force next year, means that EU...
A new Canadian law that allows the government to revoke citizenship from those who commit crimes, is drawing complaints from civil liberties and human rights groups. Similar laws are en force in several eastern European and Asian countries and are being considered in...
This 22-minute documentary video tells the story of an indigenous village in southeastern Ecuador near the Peruvian border, where the hallucinogenic drink ayahuasca plays a central role in the lives of residents. Concocted from several Amazonian plants, ayahuasca is...
By Susan Burke March, MS, RDN, LDN, CDE Before starting to work with a new client, whether it is for weight loss, or to help manage a health condition such as high blood pressure or diabetes, I ask them to complete a fairly comprehensive medical and lifestyle (diet...
One of the largest airports in Ecuador has reduced most of its operations due to the growing threat of the nearby Cotopaxi volcano. Officially called the Cotopaxi International Airport, the facility near Latacunga opened three years ago with the expectation that it...
