By Richard Tardif If you want to be fit, lose weight, eat better food and yes, be more active, and it doesn’t have to be exercise as the twentieth century dictates it, and you don’t need to exercise like an athlete. If you want to be healthier, eat more vegetables, beans, nuts, and seeds. It’s …
By Richard Tardif Non-bounce slam balls, the soft ones filled with sand, are proving an affective alternative to free weights, as the movement of lifting the ball above your head and forcing it down works the posterior and anterior chain of muscles while offering an affective cardio push. Muscles in your shoulders, triceps, abdominals, quads, glutes, …
By Richard Tardif It’s not how much we weigh that is the real culprit to health and longevity, but the fat roosting deep in our midsections, above the belt or below it, termed “overfat” and 76 percent of us (5.5 billion) may be overfat, something more diabolical and deadlier than being “overweight” and maybe, “obese”. …
By Richard Tardif Today’s obesity epidemic began in the 1950s when we were told to avoid eating fat, after it was hypothesized by Dr. Ancel Keys that dietary saturated fat is linked to the climbing rates of heart disease and should be avoided, and we should increase our carbohydrates instead, if we were to win …
By Richard Tardif The 60-year-old men in Sweden will always be known to be in better shape, or at least as fit, running next to any 30-year-old Canadian man, thanks to a 15-second, grainy and badly recorded 1973 ParticipACTION television commercial shaming Canadians into thinking about their health. The commercial, which aired only six times …
The Swede who outlasted the Canadian, and still does! Read More »
By Richard Tardif Yet another health study this time commissioned by a dream team of Canada’s disease fighters is recommending a tax on sugar drinks, an excise researchers are predicting that in 25 years will reduce obesity rates, curb diabetes and cut cancer – in turn saving 13,000 lives and perhaps $12 billion in health …
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By Richard Tardif Recently, on a business trip I caught up with a friend who informed me she had been on sick leave with myalgic encephalomyelitis, but more often called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), a long-lasting fatigue with a cluster of symptoms: joint pain, headaches, sleeps problems, and poor concentration and short-term memory, to name …
By Richard Tardif Six months after I began my journey to health and fitness I agreed to meet with my “Friday night friends”. I had disappeared from the pack and thought it would be great to reconnect. For five years we met every Friday night at our local pub and ate to our heart’s content. …
