Montreal Gazette - Community project will encourage viewers to set own goals

Montreal news anchor Mutsumi Takahashi was trying to achieve a healthier lifestyle, but became, in her words, fed up with the whole dieting thing.

"Every week it was some new fad - one week carbs were good, then they were bad, then it was low fat, then no fat. Frankly, it was all enough to make you crazy." Takahashi wanted some plain, back to basics, common sense knowledge on just how to go about "feeling good and living a healthy life."

Enter Catherine Sabiston, the director of McGill University's Health Behaviour and Emotion Lab, who has spent a great deal of time studying people and why they don't do the things they know they should be doing. Takahashi and Sabiston have banded together to launch a community project called Lifetime, which airs every other Monday on Takahashi's midday program on CFCF-12, aimed at helping viewers achieve a healthier lifestyle.