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WEBE Wellness: The Ways Walking Helps Your Mental Health

WEBE Wellness: The Ways Walking Helps Your Mental Health

Now that we’ve got a stretch of a little less humid weather, take advantage! Taking daily walks helps you in numerous ways – burning calories, helping with heart health, improving your physical fitness and mobility. But there’s a lot of other ways you probably didn’t even realize a brisk walk can help you mentally:

You’ll gain a greater sense of self-efficacy – basically, it’s a confidence booster. And if you walk with a confident posture, it’ll help even more.

Walking improves your circulation, which also increases blood flow to the brain, and you’ll be able to reduce stress, anxiety, mental fatigue, and you’ll dwell less on negative thoughts.

If you have trouble sleeping, walking can help – but it’s actually better in that case to walk first thing in the morning and reset your biological clock.

Some of your best ideas come to you while walking – being mindful of ourselves and our surroundings while walking can be just as useful for our minds as close-eyed meditation – so you might even feel more creative afterwards!

So when you’re looking for a mood booster after a tough day at work, take a walk!

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WEBE Wellness: Add Years To Your Life With Coffee

WEBE Wellness: Add Years To Your Life With Coffee

You wake up and have coffee, you take a break in the middle of the day to go get coffee, you might even have some after a fancy dinner – and all of it could be adding YEARS to your life!

A new study shows that two to three cups of coffee a day lowers the risk of heart disease and dangerous heart rhythms.

The study shows it’s safe for people with cardiovascular disease because it has a positive or neutral effect. Any more than three cups isn’t bad for you either, but it won’t provide additional benefits. There’ smore than 100 nutritious plant chemicals in coffee beans, and they can help improve insulin sensitivity and metabolism.

However, this just goes for regular coffee – the moment you add sugar, flavors, and sweeteners, you’ll be negating the positive effects.

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BMW iX xDrive50 Test Drive

Watch as Danny Lyons visits BMW of Darien to test drive the newest EV Model, the BMW iX xDrive50. Danny meets the team and does a walk around of the new All-Electric BMW, asking questions about the performance, the battery range, the charging, the safety, and so much more.

Watch, Learn and go Test Drive your own BMW iX xDrive50 at BMW of Darien, located on 140 Ledge Road in Darien.

WEBE Wellness: Add 24 Years To Your Life

WEBE Wellness: Add 24 Years To Your Life

If someone said you could add a year to your life just for cutting out ice cream, you might say you weren’t interested. But would you be interested in adding two decades to your life?

A new study shows that there are eight habits that you should adopt by the age of 40, and you could live an additional 21 years for women, and 24 years for men.

The habits are straightforward – exercise, avoid excessive pain pills, don’t smoke, manage stress, eat mostly plants, avoid binge drinking, get enough sleep, and maintain good social relationships and friendships.

All make sense, and hopefully you’re doing most if not all. But if not, add them for a longer lifespan.

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WEBE Wellness: Easier Ways To Achieve Your Goals

WEBE Wellness: Easier Ways To Achieve Your Goals

It’s not a new year, but with kids going back to school and Summer winding down, the first week of September is a good week to reset and think about your goals. Making new habits stick is hard, but not impossible, and there are a few steps to take to make achieving your goals easier.

First, set specific goals – not just general statements like “I want to work out” – but more specifically, like I want to work out 3 days per week.

And plan – if you’ve got the goal, also plan out exactly when you’re going to accomplish it.

Also, don’t have goals, even though they may be good for you, be something you hate – if you hate running, try to find a different exercise that you do enjoy in its place.

You also will find that life may get in the way – and if it interrupts your schedule for the new habit, don’t be too hard on yourself. Just make sure you do get back to it!

And, finally, if you let your friends and family know about your goals, have them keep on you to encourage you to continue with it – you won’t want to disappoint them!

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