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: The Health Pros And Cons Of Drinking Coffee
Are you a regular coffee drinker? If so, it’s probably affecting your health – both positively and negatively at the same time. Coffee drinkers get more steps in each day than non-coffee drinkers. But, by staying more active, they’re also getting less sleep overall. The caffeine gets you moving – about 1,000 more steps per…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: Improve Your Mood…For Free!
The weekend is nearly here! But if that doesn’t excite you, there’s a few easy things you can do to further improve your mood and, best of all, it’s free! Send a message to someone you haven’t spoken too in a while – even if it’s a meme, reconnecting with a friend is always a…… 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: How To Combat That 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: 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 Perfect Nap Length
Well we moved the clocks ahead on Sunday, but maybe you’re still feeling the effects – a nap might help, as long as you don’t sleep too long. According to a specialist in behavorial sleep medicine, the perfect nap is 20 to 30 minutes – any longer, and you start to get into deep sleep,…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: Tea Vs. Coffee
You probably had coffee this morning. Maybe even a coffee break this afternoon. But you may want to switch to tea – it may even be the healthiest drink in the world! First, it lowers blood pressure – it causes blood vessels to relax, which can keep your blood pressure in check. Since tea comes…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: The Ways Your Dentist Finds Things That Affect Your Overall Health
Going to the dentist regularly to keep your teeth intact is probably the reason many of us go. But believe it or not, your dentist may be able to spot things that affect your overall health – just from looking at your mouth! First, beyond taking care of your teeth and gums, your dentist can…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: Beating 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: The Bad Side Of Coffee
In a new study of the most caffeinated states in the country, Connecticut is right in the middle at #27 – not too much, not too little – just enough. And that’s where we want to be, because while an occasional cup of coffee is good for you – there’s antioxidants and the caffeine helps…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: How Old You Are Versus How Old You Feel
There are two things – how old you are and how old you feel. And for most of us, we don’t feel our age. A new study shows that we think or feel we’re about 20% younger than we are. Meaning a 30-year-old feels 24; a 40-year-old feels like they’re in their early 30s; and…… 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