Every weekday at 4:45pm, Allan gives you a tip to help improve your life. It’s WEBE Wellness! It could range from exercise to better sleep to eating healthy. A minute that could help enhance your world.
WEBE Wellness: Should We Really Try For 10,000 Steps Per Day?
Do you try to get 10,000 steps in every day? Many of us do – whether we use a Fitbit or check the steps on our phones. But is 10,000 still what we need? New research shows that it’s far fewer. The ideal number of steps to aim for is between 6,000 and 8,000 each…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: Do Cold Showers Give Health Benefits?
You’ve probably heard about ice baths – a lot of celebrities are swearing by cold water immersion to help with everything from inflammation to focus to exercise recovery. But these special baths are expensive and tough to utilize if you don’t have a lot of space. So will a cold shower do the same? Experts…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: How Much Exercise Do We Really Need Each Week?
You know you should exercise to keep healthy, but how much should you exercise? Not to become a competitive athlete, but to live a longer, healthier life? A new study reveals we need 150 minutes of moderate exercise a week – that’s 2 and a half hours. But if you don’t have the time, 75…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: The Best Day To Take Off Work
Sometimes you just need to take a day off from work – but what day should you take. How about tomorrow? Specifically, Wednesdays are the best day to take a day off. And this is directly from a college professor of time and communication. The reason is it splits up our routine evenly – generally,…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: Happiness Is A New Hobby
If you’re looking to add some happiness into your life, find a new hobby. A new study shows it helps, especially as we age. Researchers found those with hobbies tend to be happier, less depressed, and more satisfied with their lives, and they stay sharper mentally. The study looked at nearly 100,000 people across three…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: Avoid These Weekend Mistakes
It’s finally the weekend! And you want to have a good time and relax, but there’s a few things to avoid doing this weekend so you don’t screw up the next week. Sleeping in may sound wonderful, but big variations in your sleep times leads to greater fatigue overall. An hour or two is fine,…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: Why Adults Should Take Up Skateboarding
If you happen to go by a skatepark and see among all the kids a middle-aged person riding a skateboard, if you said to yourself “that’s someone having a mid-life crisis,” you’ll probably be right. Researchers are now recommending skateboarding for those in their 40s and 50s who may be struggling with depression, substance abuse…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: Is Hitting Snooze A Bad Thing?
Have you heard before it’s bad to keep hitting the snooze button on your alarm? Well don’t let it stress you out – it turns out it’s not a bad thing after all! Researchers did a study where half of the sleepers hit the snooze repeatedly for 30 minutes, the other half had their alarm…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: The Trick To Making A Pill Work Faster
No one wants to have to take medicine, but when we do, we want it to work fast. And there’s a trick you can do with your own body to have it kick in faster. Lie down on your right side. A study at Johns Hopkins figured out that it hits your blood stream more…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: Beat Work Burnout
If you’ve totally burned out by work and you can’t take a vacation or if a different job isn’t a possibility, there are some things you can do to beat work burnout: First, recognize that your burned out – not just tired – be on the lookout for headaches, gastrointestinal issues, or restlessness when you…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: Eating Healthier When Dining Out
We all love to go out to eat, but it’s important to remember that comes with unintended consequences – primarily, trying to eat healthy. But there are some easy tips to keep in mind when sitting down at a restaurant if you want to keep up your healthy lifestyle: • Keep track of calories –…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: 3 Seconds A Day To Build Muscle
Building muscle is important, but many of us can’t find the time. But that’s no longer an excuse – because all you need is 3 seconds! A new study shows that performing one bicep curl, at maximum effort, will give a 10% increase in muscle strength in just a month. So, 3 seconds day, for…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: Write It Down
You ever feel like it’s getting harder than ever to remember important info – or even what you need to get at the grocery store? Just because it’s easy to put things down in the Notes app on your iPhone, if you really want to remember things – use the old tried-and-true method of writing…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: Healthier Toothbrushing
Did you brush your teeth today? Well, hopefully you did – but, more importantly, did you brush correctly? Many of us brush our teeth wrong – and there are big mistakes dentists say they see all the time. First – brushing too hard. It’s bad for your gums, and the bristles can’t do their job…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: Bad News For Night Owls
If you consider yourself a night owl, there’s some news that may make you want to become an early bird. Researchers believe they’ve discovered scientific evidence that our brains are not meant to be awake after midnight. Our internal biological clock expects sleep by that time and staying up too late triggers changes in our…… Continue Reading