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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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, …
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