Health

An autism diagnosis can leave us paralyzed with fear for our children’s future. However, these six things will help you and your family survive autism:

1. Don’t be in denial for too long. We all do this. My denial cost us valuable time. We all hope our kids have been misdiagnosed and want it to be anything else. Back then I didn’t think autism was treatable. I was told there was no cure, no recovery or hope with autism. So I convinced myself that my son didn’t really have autism and he probably was the next genius like Albert Einstein or Thomas Edison.

Recent news on the projected lifespans of younger Americans isn’t good. A 2021 study suggests that if present trends continue they will be the first generation to live shorter lives than their parents. Researchers found that the health of people born between 1964 and 1989 (Generations X and Y) has been declining. Compared to their parents and grandparents younger people had higher rates of anxiety and depression. They were also more likely to be in poor physical health demonstrated by an increased incidence of metabolic syndrome and chronic inflammation.
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It’s Monday morning, and Michael, a senior executive at a global telecommunications company, faces the week utterly exhausted. Only 38, he’s been a high-level leader with the firm for more than a decade. Once, he was a wunderkind, an "energizer" on the fast track to become the company’s youngest-ever CEO, but those days are over. Now, Michael is perpetually depleted, and his pinpoint focus has given way to constant brain fog. He struggles with stress and anxiety every day—a state of mind (and body) that’s killing his performance capacity.

Most office workers sit too much. Waaaay too much. We sit in meetings. In front of the computer, and during the daily commute. And all this sitting, along with a lack of physical activity, has devastating effects on the body and the brain. Ready for the sitting list of doom? Too much time in the chair leads to a decline in health, an increase in stress, poor posture and related aches and pains, and an unfocused brain that has a hard time thinking critically and processing memory.

Without a doubt, one of the most difficult parts of making positive lifestyle changes is backing away from unhealthy foods—and our favorite things always seem to be on that list, don’t they? All too often, our quest for better health results in bland, joyless meals. Sooner or later, our desperate taste buds give in to temptation—and our eating habits end up right back where they started.

So what, if anything, can be done to break this cycle?

If you’re like most people who are trying to lose weight, you have a very close, yet very uncomfortable relationship with your bathroom scale. Most of the time, no matter how hard you work, it seems like your scale delights in making you miserable (and sometimes, you’d swear that it’s lying to you on purpose). But no matter how frustrated and demoralized you get, you step onto the scale every day, hoping against hope that the needle will move just a bit further to the left.

Sound familiar?

What determines the chemistry between you and your spouse? Who has not said, "They have good chemistry together?" We hear it so often that it seems trite. Typically, we direct that remark towards a couple that looks mismatched to our judgment. We ask ourselves, "What do they see in each other?" Our usual answer is that their chemistry is just right. This is often our only way of reconciling the force of attraction between these two.

However, what if the concept of chemical attraction has a direct biological basis? New research is revealing that it does and many of those reasons had not been previously expected or explored.