Every weekday at 5:45pm, 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: Avoid Getting “Hangry”
It’s not wise to skip meals, but it happens from time to time. And then the inevitable happens when you feel “hangry” – and the angrier you get, the hungrier you get, and it only gets worse. But what, exactly, is happening? Believe it or not, there’s your stomach and your brain are connected. The…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: A Healthy Trick To Weight Loss
Losing weight is difficult – it takes a lot of effort over a long time. The objective is to eat fewer calories, but simply trying to avoid excess calories rarely works. Keeping track of everything you eat and drink and adding them up is a necessary step to take. And keeping a food diary might…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: The Drink To Alleviate Anxiety
Whether you’re someone who feels anxious or not, we all could use something from time-to-time that would help make us feel like we’re in more control. Support from friends and family or professionals, and living a healthy lifestyle are all ways to help manage our anxiety – but one nutritional psychiatrist says a beverage is…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: The Foods That Affects Your Mood
You’ve like heard that “you are what you eat” – and that may be truer than ever before. There’s always been a link between diet and mood, but a new study shows specifically the foods that affect our mental health: • Too much fast food is already bad for our physical health, and your mental…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: The Secret Benefits Of Exercise
We all know that regular exercise helps you burn fat and lower heart disease risks, but there are other more subtle ways you might not expect that exercise helps us. While exercise helps clear our minds, it also helps with memory – enhanced synaptic activity was discovered in a new study, which means you might…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: Signs You’re Not Getting Enough Fiber
You already know fiber is a necessary part of every diet. It aids in digestion, helps keep cholesterol down, and helps reduce the risk of chronic diseases like cancer, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes. You should be getting 25-35 grams every day – but how do you know if you’re getting enough every day?…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: Eat This When You’re Stressed
If you feel stressed, the best thing you can do is eat something. But not just anything you find in the fridge – dieticians have a list of the best foods that help alleviate anxiety. And topping the list is something you’ll probably have a bunch of very soon – pumpkin seed. They’re high in…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: Burn More Calories In Ten Seconds
If just the thought of working out sounds exhausting, you might be excited to hear about a new way to work out – just 10 seconds at a time! A new study shows taking breaks and doing 10 second bursts of cardiovascular exercise actually burns more calories than going non-stop. And not just a little…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: Eating Healthy And Still Having Dessert
Lose weight and still have dessert? It can happen! In fact, there are a lot of options for those who want to indulge in something sweet and keep up with their health goals. The trick is to look for treats that make you feel full. One thing to look for are recipes for energy bites…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: The Best Beverage For Mental And Physical Health
Coffee may be king in the morning, but there’s another beverage out there that’s growing in popularity in the United States. As people switch from sodas and sugary drinks, we’re drinking more tea these days. Aside from drinking for the taste of it, science is looking at how tea affects our brains. A new study…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: Why You Should Have Pizza For Breakfast
In Connecticut, we love our pizza – and there’s few things better than a fresh hot pizza. A close second, is cold pizza the next day. And grabbing a slice for breakfast might not be that bad for you – in fact, it’s likely better than what you had this morning! It may not be…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: Getting A Proper Blood Pressure Reading
You do what you can to avoid high blood pressure. But when you go in for your physical, are you getting it measured correctly? Johns Hopkins University researchers did a study and found some high blood pressure diagnoses have been wrong because of how your arm is positioned when doctors put the cuff on. They…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: What Pharmacists Recommend
When you need medicine, you go to your doctor, get a prescription, and you pick it up at the pharmacy. But if you don’t have the time to get something from behind-the-counter, a new list is out – the annual “Over-the-Counter Guide” – and it’s what pharmacists recommend for common ailments: If you’ve got a…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: Almond Butter Vs. Peanut Butter
When you want minerals, proteins, and healthy fats, any variety of nuts are some of the best snacks you’ll find – and that goes for nut butter as well. But while there’s certainly a taste difference, is one better than the other – is almond butter better than peanut butter? When it comes to calcium,…… Continue Reading
WEBE Wellness: A Trick To Falling Asleep
If you have trouble falling asleep and you’ve tried absolutely everything, it may be time to take yourself away and go somewhere happy. Research shows thinking back on a happy memory may help – but you have to really put yourself in that memory. Recreating the experience in your mind is known as savoring –…… Continue Reading