By Richard Tardif Shame on Coke! Mexico’s rate of diabetes is claiming 80,000 lives a year, and the World Health Organization reports it will get worse before it gets better, if it gets better. It is clear to any reasonable person, that this is a result of a handful of dominate transnational food companies, hogging …
By Richard Tardif It’s too damned confusing this CI/CO thing, thanks, in part to Professor Mark Haub, a professor of human nutrition at Kansas State University, to show his class that weight loss improves health, in 2010 for 10 weeks dined on Twinkies every three hours, instead of meals. Yup, the zany, toxic Twinkie diet. …
By Richard Tardif The philosophy behind cheating days is based on being on one of many diet fads. The philosophy goes: Healthy eating requires some willpower—the doggedness you’ve sourced to keep eating those dredged diet foods, which basically ban you from eating real food. To reward yourself for a job well done, you can flip the …
Richard Tardif His words were strung together like a dare. Prove to me that the Calories In, Calories Out model for weight-loss is a myth? Drake, a personal fitness trainer, is a pleasant, even-keeled man who has this aura of gracefulness about him. He is a slender man of six-feet, in his fifties, and has …
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Why hire a personal trainer? I write books and stories about how the fitness industry and the media may not have you back. I won’t try to fool you.
by Richard Tardif Your co-workers might think it strange but one way to safely fire the glutes and keep your back, legs and behind active is to get out from behind your desk, lie on the floor and do a series of hip raises. The synergistic working of the hamstrings, gluteal, extensors and lower back …
By Richard Tardif Author Alice Park, a writer covering health, medicine, nutrition and fitness for TIME, gets all the credit for such a headline in 2011, and it’s fitting in 2017, given that the Canadian government is moving to ban sugary food TV advertising to children, and levy a tax on our soda pop. …
EMBRACING THE TRUTH ABOUT FITNESS: AN INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD TARDIF Here’s the deal: many of us are tired of the confusion when it comes to health and fitness claims. A lot of people would love to have a “do this, not that, eat this, not that” method to follow. An easy solution. But the truth …
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By Richard Tardif Functionally speaking, that is. I also want to know if you will be strong enough to carry me? First, functional strength is thought of as the strength that gets us through life and daily survival without injury. In describing FS authors often ask us to think back to the history books and …
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By Richard Tardif Let me start by saying I drink three cups of coffee every morning, sometimes at a McDonald’s while eating an Egg McMuffin, and one or two nights in the month I drink a can of Diet Pepsi while practicing my couch potato techniques watching recordings of UFC Fight Night. According to Matt …
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