By Richard Tardif A new study on sugar says taxing sugar will not solve a thing. The real problem, it says, isn’t soft drinks themselves but overall calorie intake. This is another assumption that Calories In, Calories Out model actually works. Calories In, Calories Out model is the constant mantra among nutritionists, trainers, or anyone in …
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By Richard Tardif Survivorship bias, or “If I did it you can too” advice is a huge problem in the fitness, health and wellness industry. Fitness advice is given by the tiny amount who have personal success advice, but not towards reducing the failure rate, and it is immortalized by the marketing of shiny diets, …
By Richard Tardif Yet again another study on coffee is out there in a world of hundreds, if not thousands, of studies on its negative or positive outcomes, but this latest salute to the joys of coffee addresses the reasons why we shouldn’t like coffee, even if we do. Huh? The conclusion is simple, so simple, I …
By Richard Tardif Eat less, move more you couch potato. Ever wonder where that oxymoron phrase comes from? Harvard nutrition professor and a staunch crusader against world hunger, Jean Mayer,promoting his research through his nationally syndicated column on nutrition, in 1965, referred to the low-carbohydrate diet as “mass murder” and was considered an authority on nutrition, perhaps …
by Richard Tardif If I said you could train in less time with three times the effect of traditional cardio and strength benefits as a result would you believe me? Probably not! That’s probably because, like me, traditional cardio (steppers, stationary bikes, treadmills and elliptical) have long been the guiding mantra to fat loss. Today …
By Richard Tardif The latest trends in sponsored advertising and among Broscience is that everything we’ve been doing, we’ve been doing it wrong. The ten exercises men have been doing, they’ve been doing it wrong. Women, never do these eight exercises again. If you start a new exercise, you’ll probably be wrong, and here’s why. Planks, …
You’ve been doing it all wrong: The draw of Broscience Read More »
By Richard Tardif Those of us of a certain age who lived through the science and the media’s anxiety over heart attacks in the mid to late 1900s, and those who were not even born, but are alive today, have the infamous and controversial Seven Countries Study to thank for today’s obesity epidemic. The study’s conclusion, …
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by Richard Tardif I was three weeks into a massive calorie-cut for a photo-shoot of my new body; 21 days, 16 hours, 23 minutes to be exact, with each day spent at the gym; one hour cardio, one hour weight training. The final photo, which my publisher a day later pasted on the back cover of …
Don’t be fooled. Diets aren’t cool, and Weight Watchers wants to be cool. One of the most popular weight loss plans on the planet is changing its name, its motto and its stance on the calories in, calories out for slimming, focusing on the journey rather than a destination, doing away with before and after …
By Richard Tardif It’s been called the hidden killer, a manufactured substitute for true fat, the food industry’s Trojan Horse, and we’ve been eating it since the early 1900s, and Canada only banned it on September 15, 2018 despite almost 20 years of scientific knowledge that trans fats, with a corpse-like colour, giving us that …
