By Richard Tardif This is not about the TV series from “Fit to Fat to Fit”. This is about 45-year-old Jenny Paret, single mother of three living in Montreal. Paret is a busy Administrative assistant full of energy, and someone with an amazing ability to remember details. But for three years, fatigue was her constant companion. …
By Richard Tardif Lachine Borough Mayor, Maja Vodanovic, invites you to attend the blood drive that will be held on Thursday, March 7th, from 1:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., at LakesideAcademy, located on 5050, rue Sherbrooke in Lachine. The objective of this event is to welcome 100 donors. The demand is always high. according to Héma-Québec …
By Richard Tardif The medical journal, the Lancet, announced to the world in December of 2018 that a major threat to humankind, and thus the planet, is being overweight and obese. It went on to say that the wrongdoer is not in fact humans obsessed with fast food meals, sweet drinks, Big Gulps and developing …
By Richard Tardif The United Kingdom announced this week its Fizz-Free February campaign which coincides with research that shows a 70 percent rise in the number of teenagers with diabetes over the last four years. The campaign is targeted at young adults and children and aims to break the habitual consumption of drinks with added sugar, …
As an investigative journalist, Richard Tardif begins his second book by examining a short history of nutrition research and media reporting on nutritional studies, and how the media plays an influential role in its reporting of nutritional science from the low-fat dieting in the 1970s, to the Herculean efforts by investigative journalists in the early …
By Richard Tardif It’s a fantasy. Go ahead and eat fast food with while increasing fats all day and still lose weight? Give me two sausage egg-McMuffins, double the cheese, two hash browns, and a Diet Coke, but I’ll toss the buns and by supper, I’ll have eaten some more meat because unlike the Keto plan, dirty …
By Richard Tardif Leave me in my comfort zone. I like it there. I sleep well, eat well, learn well, and frankly, it’s there I’ve learned and worked to have my needs met. In the last ten years, probably longer, the “thing” has been, “Get out of your comfort zone” for a better life, meet …
By Richard Tardif The holidays offer a chance for all of us to slow down, and for me that means one thing: read a book or two on fitness, health and well-being, and this year is no different. In five days, I unfolded 320 pages of Marion Nestle’s Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science …
By Richard Tardif The body knows best how to heal itself, but science has come up with a plethora of ways to ingest, rub on, and intervene in the name of healing. In many cases, but not all, we become dependent on and believe in the medicine as a cure. This is leading to long-term …
By Richard Tardif The more I learn, the more I understand the benefits of physical activity and its benefits for the body. Exercise for weight loss? I don’t believe it any more. Think about this? Exercise is the Mother of Invention – if we used our muscles eight hours a day, instead of butt-planting ourselves …
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