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Richard Tardif is an award-winning investigative journalist, editor, bestselling author, publisher, gutsy storyteller, and proven writing and speaking coach. Known for transforming first drafts into inspiring bestselling books and bland essays into persuasive speeches, the prolific writer offers professional publishing services for those with a resonating desire for transformation. Richard's background includes 25 years of reporting on the health and fitness industry, cybersecurity, Internet safety, Canadian Indigenous relations, and the newspaper industry's transformation.

The numbers don’t lie, or do they? Part 3 – 10,000 steps?

A Japanese company marketing the simple and affordable “manpo-kei,” loosely translated as “10,000 steps meter” popularized the general notion that 10,000 steps a day will shed the weight, but it was actually a Japan walking club during the 1964 Tokyo Olympics that began using a belt meter to count their steps. While no doubt there are …

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Do you make the vitamin grade?

By Richard Tardif Lately Multi-Level Marketing health, wellness and vitamin companies hoping to add me as a sales generator have bombarded me, and while I don’t support or criticize these companies, nor their hard working salespeople, I was curious about the latest offering. In particular, the differences between pharmaceutical grade vitamins, sometimes called neutriceuticals, and the …

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NEATness counts, maybe for couch potatoes – By Richard Tardif

Long walks or walk meetings, I read, can add to your overall fitness and health goals. It’s called Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis (NEAT) and it isn’t a pass to eat more, because you cannot out walk or out exercise your unhealthy eating patterns, yet NEAT is attracting a great deal of attention lately, and all for …

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