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Richard Tardif is the author of six books. Born in St. John’s, Newfoundland, in 1960, he was raised in Montreal from 1964. He has worked in the military, journalism, publishing, and public speaking, including Toastmasters. His writing has appeared in literary fiction and journalistic contexts. He lives in Montreal, where he continues to write.

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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All this sugar can’t be good for you?

By Richard Tardif It isn’t. Last year the World Health Organization announced it would eventually chop the organizations’ daily sugar recommendation of 10 percent of total sugar intake to five. Less rigid is the U.S. Institute of Medicine recommendation of 25 percent of daily calories from sugar. Canada’s Food Guide is laissez-faires over sugar consumption serving

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