Browsing Tag: Chile

It is a cold evening in Santiago de Chile. Like every Thursday for the last 9 years, a group of yoga students gather under one common goal. To serve and bring food to some of the many homeless people that live on the streets in Santiago, Chile.

Previous research has suggested that beneficial effects of spices and their bioactive ingredient, capsaicin, include anti-obesity, antioxidant, anti-inflammation and anticancer properties.

Chile is such a great country. It stretches several thousand miles from north to south on the Pacific side of the South American continent and only 90 miles east to west. Its eastern flank is the great Andes Mountain range that separates it from Argentina. It is a land forged by fire, earthquakes and volcanoes. And its shape? Like a chile pepper, of course.

I might have looked incredulous, but I still continued, as I was so curious and happy and excited to learn of his heritage. I continued: "How is that possible?"...He told me that yes, his great-grandfather was Sikh and was the one who had come over to Chile.

Previously Langar Chile served meals to the homeless one day a week, but now volunteers are cooking and serving about 400 meals a day for families left homeless by the last earthquake on February 27, 2010.

Our 7th country on this marvelous Lord of Miracles Tour is Chile. This long narrow country [named after the green chile pepper because of its shape] extends from Peru in the north to the South Pole...