When it comes to a healthy lifestyle, millennials are already a step ahead of their predecessors. The stigma around mental health was shattered a long time ago, and people are more openly discussing it and working on improving their mental health rather than trying to hide it away. When it comes to cooking, many young people still find it hard to balance healthy homemade meals with the fast-paced lifestyle, and then comes the exercising and de-stressing. A millennial to a millennial, here are some tips on how to achieve a sustainable healthy balance day after day.
Learn to say no
When you learn it, it will probably be one of the best things you’ll learn in your life. You don’t have to be rude, simple consider it as a sign of respect for your existing commitments. Although a balance is needed somewhere, because sometimes saying ‘no’ just won’t cut it, but in general, this skill will relieve you a lot of stress and headache, clearing the path to improved mental health. Of course, no one is saying you should say ‘no’ all the time. When asked if you want a cold beer, for instance.
Work to live
It’s often easy to get blurry vision on the question of whether we live to work or work to live. Does your work life support your ambitions and dreams outside the office? Some of us are creative by nature and anything and everything that gives us a creative outlet is worth pursuing. You don’t have to be a master of skills, but as long as you love it and can share with the people you love, you can be happy. Your work should enable you to pursue your hobbies and teach you values in the process. The key is to do what you love and let your work support you in getting there.
Smile more
What’s better than a night in with Netflix? A night out with your real friends. It’s important to surround yourself with positivity, which is sometimes difficult, especially if you move to a different country where you start out with zero friends. Making friends often means putting yourself out of your comfort zone, but if you don’t restrain your smile, you’ll soon feel at home. A bright smile is inseparable from healthy teeth, so make sure you have them checked regularly, wherever you are.
Keep in mind that the cost of dental service sometimes varies between the countries. Routine professional cleaning in the UK stands around £60, while the information provided by CostHelper.com puts the price anywhere between $80 and $175 for the U.S, while in Sydney you’re likely to pay $91–157 for scale and clean. For their most demanding procedures, this orthodontic in Chatswood, for example, offers competitive fees for their treatments, as well as interest-free installment plans and affordable down payments, while their combination of treatment methods delivers the highest quality results possible.
Eat wholesomely
Anyone born after WW2 was indoctrinated in the false idol worship of low-fat foods, and even after the myth has been thoroughly debunked, the idea still persists in our supermarkets. As Frank Hu, a lead researcher in this field and a professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health put it in 2010, ‘the low-fat spell has backfired, as the overzealous effort to reduce fat caused a surging consumption of carbohydrates and sugar. Millennials, on the other hand, are eating like their great-grandparents, dumping junk, eating lots of vegetables, and embracing fat. Ditching packed supermarket foods, healthy millennials are champions of the ‘locavore’ movement, relying on farmer’s markets and cooked food to eat out. As The Doe puts it, we live in a society that makes it easy to get into a “fat stage,” with our cultural emphasis on convenience and the easy availability of highly processed foods, but also shames fat people for trying to “do better” by society’s twisted health expectations.
It goes without saying that these instructions are easier said than done. It takes effort and personality types aren’t made equal, so keep in mind that once you get a hold of these few, you’ll set the right course to a healthy living mode you can keep up.
