Optimal Daily Steps if You Have a Treadmill Desk?

If you’ve been contemplating a treadmill desk to break up hours of sitting, a major international study led by the University of Sydney suggests that walking 7,000 steps a day delivers health benefits nearly on par with hitting the long-touted 10,000 step mark.

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Can an Autistic Woman Have a Male Version of Autism?

You’ve heard that autism often “presents differently” in women than in men, but can women have a male version of ASD?

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Worried of Your Autistic Child’s Future? Get Healthy & Fit!

It’s common for parents of severely autistic kids to worry “who’s going to take care of them after we’re gone”?

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Dr. Leo Kanner’s 1943 Paper Defines Infantile Autism

In 1943, Austrian-American psychiatrist Dr. Leo Kanner published a groundbreaking paper titled “Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact” in the journal Nervous Child.

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