Dangerous heart rhythm and coffee: the link — A new study suggests that a cup of caffeinated coffee a day may reduce the risk of recurring irregular heartbeats rather than make them worse. [...]
New research suggests that decades of steady endurance exercise — running, cycling, hiking or brisk walking — do more than keep your heart and muscles in shape. […]
If you or someone you know is taking the antidepressant Sertraline, there’s encouraging news. […]
If you love a morning smoothie, here’s a small tweak that could make a big difference. […]
Struggling to fall asleep or stay asleep? You’re not alone. […]
Have you ever noticed that two people can eat the same high-fiber meal but process it differently? […]
Ever looked at a cloud, a car, or even a piece of toast and thought, “That kind of looks like a face”? […]
Must GLP-1 drugs be taken in painful injections or has a pill finally arrived that you can easily take by mouth? One is actually here. […]
It may seem intuitive to resign to a sedentary life if your knees hurt from osteoarthritis, but the best thing you can do is GET MOVING via aerobic exercise. […]
A study suggests that even modest physical activity — like adding a few thousand steps to your day — could make a real difference in how quickly Alzheimer’s disease develops. […]
If a young able-bodied adult uses a walker out of fear of falling from dizzy spells, will this over time compromise her mobility and joint integrity? […]
Supposedly for neurotypicals, eye contact is crucial in social settings. But if this is so, how do blind people navigate social interaction? […]
It happened again: I met a new autistic woman; she spoke of her hypermobility; I asked if she had EDS; she said yes. […]
Someone once said, “We have limited lifetime heartbeats; I’ll be damned I’m going to use them up running down a street.” […]
Walking in nonstop segments of 10 to 15 minutes in daily life is much better for your heart than the same number of steps with only five minute walks. […]
A groundbreaking new clinical trial, the first of its kind, has found a way to identify breast cancer survivors most at risk of having a recurrence. […]
A study says how well you “hear” in a noisy environment could be more about your level of intelligence rather than your sense of hearing. […]
Social isolation can harm your health. But what if you train like a warrior? […]
So many activities for special needs adults give an age range of 18-25, 18-30 or state “young adults.” This is blatant ageism. […]
You can feel free to overindulge on Thanksgiving with these 5 strategies for banking calories ahead of time and on that very day! […]
Interval running might just be the ultimate workout hack, mixing short bursts of your fastest or almost fastest running with recovery periods, giving major fitness results in way less time than traditional cardio. Almost a [...]
Researchers looked into the timing of eye contact, not just how it’s done. The study, led by cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Nathan Caruana and his team at Flinders University’s HAVIC Lab, asked 137 typical participants to [...]
Once breast cancer spreads to the bones, the prognosis for long-term survival is poor. But there are exceptions. […]
Why don’t articles about nonspeaking autistics include videos showing them composing the eloquent commentaries they claim to create via letter boards or typing — with the camera aimed on the letters they’re selecting? [...]
Are you autistic and at times find you can’t keep your legs still while seated or in bed? […]
Scroll through Instagram or TikTok and you’ll find many body image and mental health influencers sharing stories of “healing journeys.” […]
I’m autistic and am disbelieving of the “rapid prompting method,” which is just another name for facilitated communication (long disproven by science). […]
When there’s news about someone dying at 112 or having a 108th birthday party, the comments roll in about the misery of living that long. […]
Ever notice how people with ADHD often come up with the wildest, most original ideas? Scientists are starting to confirm what many already suspected — that ADHD’s “wandering mind” might actually be fueling creativity. Before [...]
What is this world coming to when a successful lean influencer gripes that seeing other influencers shrinking in size is unbearable? […]
AI Image creation censor bots often generate the NSFW response when my requests pertain to the human body, particularly size. The world we live in has become softer than Charmin. The AI threshold bar for [...]
Recently had a heart problem? The last thing you’ll want to do is be inactive most of the day once out of the hospital. […]
You might think your sense of smell bounced back after COVID-19 — but according to new research, it probably didn’t. […]
More and more adults with intellectual disability such as with Down syndrome are attending mainstream colleges. […]
Don’t let the funky name, “rapid prompting method,” fool you: This is facilitated communication in disguise with just some minor procedural differences. […]
Fat activism influencer Amanda Martinez Beck condemns exercise; she compares gyms to churches; she believes the fitness community is a cult. […]
If data on life expectancy for autistic adults has you alarmed, remind yourself that obesity and inactivity are the biggest influencers, along with smoking, when it comes to how long one will live. [...]
If autism is an evolutionary trait only in humans, then wouldn’t this point to some sort of survival advantage? […]
Many severely autistic young men have a belly that’s disproportionately large when compared to their arms and legs. […]
With the way some parents talk about how their child “got away” from them or how preschoolers “are so fast,” one must ask: Can a 4 year old outrun a typical adult? […]
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