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 since the pandemic, a lot of us started taking far fewer steps. Now that more of us are living our lives as we did beforehand, is 10,000 still…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: Sleeping To Lose Weight
Many of us struggle with weight loss, but beyond diet and exercise, there’s another thing you may not have tried – sleeping more! A new study tracked how many hours people slept with how many calories they consumed. Participants who got a full 8 hours consumed on average 270 fewer calories per day. For some…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: Solo Walking For Better Exercise
You already know walking is good for you, and it’s fun to walk with a significant other – but if you’re doing that for exercise, a new study shows that having a partner may actually reduce the health benefits of walking! The study found that the slower walked didn’t speed up to keep up with…… 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: 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: How To Combat Monday Dread
It’s the start of a new work week, but did you dread it all day yesterday with a case of the “Sunday scaries”? That’s when you’ve got anxiety about the week ahead – it starts in the middle of the day when you realize the weekend is nearly over, builds throughout the evening, and may…… 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Why You Wake Up Still Feeling Tired
When you woke up this morning, did you feel like you could go right back to bed for another night’s sleep? There are a few reasons why you might be waking up too tired: First, if you have a sedentary lifestyle where you sit all day and don’t exercise, your body may be too used…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: Easy Ways To Be More Liked By Others
We all want to be liked. But if you want people to like you even more, there are three easy things you can do. First – be seen often. Being seen by people more often makes them more likely to enjoy being around you. And that also means, when you’re working from home, you have…… Continue Reading