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ANTIGONISH:<\/strong> Professional football player and Medical School Graduate Laurent Duvernay-Tardif is visiting St. Francis Xavier University to engage students as part of Sodexo\u2019s The Circuit, Powering Athletic Performance program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2020 Super Bowl champion is hosting on-campus and virtual visits that focus on healthy eating, how food improves cognitive function, concentration, and energy, and the importance of physical activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m excited to meet students at StFX and speak about the benefits of a healthy lifestyle,\u201d said Laurent Duvernay-Tardif. \u201cI look forward to sharing my personal experiences with them and positively influencing their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”7″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”92″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Circuit is an innovative health and wellness program for young people that pairs access to fresh, diverse, exciting meals with easy-to-understand nutrition education. It draws on young people\u2019s increasing curiosity about food and its impact on their body and health. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Students learn how different foods can sustain them both physically and mentally, empowering them to make smart, healthy decisions both now and in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “As a professional athlete and medical school graduate, Laurent brings an extraordinary perspective to nutrition and physical activity,\u201d said Martin Lapointe, Vice President Operations, Education Programs, Sodexo Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAs we look at our dedication to The Circuit, Powering Athletic Performance program, I can think of no better representative for our work on campuses than a doctor who is a professional football star.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”71″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Duvernay-Tardif will be hosting two events at StFX on March 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first is an Athletic Leadership Breakfast for 120 people from 7:30-9:30 am at the McKenna Centre \u2013 Schwartz School of Business (4th<\/sup> floor). <\/p>\n\n\n\n The second event is an in-person chat with Laurent from 10:30-noon in the Schwartz Auditorium where almost 300 Human Kinetics, Human Nutrition and other students will attend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”84″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”127″] [adrotate banner=”78″] ANTIGONISH: Professional football player and Medical School Graduate Laurent Duvernay-Tardif is visiting St. Francis Xavier University to engage students as part of Sodexo\u2019s The Circuit, Powering Athletic Performance program. The 2020 Super Bowl champion is hosting on-campus and virtual visits that focus on healthy eating, how food improves cognitive function, concentration, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[50,4784,48,4785,2968,1911,1642],"class_list":["post-35182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-halifax","tag-laurent-duvernay-tardif","tag-n-s","tag-nfl","tag-nutrition","tag-st-francis-xavier-university","tag-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}