Healthy Me With YLNG - March 2021 Edition

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March 31, 2021

Living a healthy lifestyle is one of the best things you can do for yourself, its benefits are numerous and will help you both in the short and long term. YLNG’s Healthy Me initiative will provide you with healthy lifestyle tips in various areas. Feel free to share your healthy living tools, recipes, and workouts on our Facebook page with #HealthyMeWithYLNG. If you have any tips or suggestions please contact Katherine Viera at: katherine.viera@yale.edu

March Madness

Fitness:

Emotional Well-Being: ​​​​​​

  • Got the Moody Blues? There’s Hope - In this session, you will learn new strategies and tools for managing our daily emotions and moods from Professor Marc Brackett, director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and author of Permission to Feel.
  • This is Exactly How Financial Stress Affects Your Body – Lori, a New York City-based entrepreneur, is no stranger to financial uncertainty given her line of work. But between the monetary sacrifices involved in starting a business, high cost of city living, and the fiscal consequences of the pandemic, financial stress began to take a toll, she tells Bustle. But it’s not just the economic burden of her circumstances that make coping with financial issues so difficult — it’s also how financial stress impacts your health.

Skin Care:

  • Skin Cancer Prevention – Follow these tips and protect your skin from the damaging effects of sun exposure and reduce your risk of skin cancer.
  • 28 Skin Care Recipes That Will Leave Your Skin Radiant – Make one of these delicious dinner recipes that’s good for you and your skin. Ingredients like salmon, tofu and tomatoes can all help your skin look younger and lower your risk of skin cancer. Try recipes like One-Pot Tomato Basil Pasta and Salmon & Avocado Salad for a healthy, flavorful meal that boosts beauty benefits.

Recipes

  • Recipes for Weight Loss and Diet - Find healthy, delicious weight-loss and diet recipes including breakfasts, lunches, and dinners. Healthier recipes with high fiber content and low in calories, from the food and nutrition experts at EatingWell.
  • 23 Mediterranean Diet Recipes That Support Healthy Aging - The Mediterranean diet is touted as the healthiest way of eating and can be especially beneficial as you get older. A new study found that a Mediterranean-style diet, especially eating more leafy greens and less red meat, was associated with better cognitive function and brain health in older adults. To stay more mentally sharp as you get older, try recipes like Mediterranean Lentil & Kale Salad and One-Pot Garlicky Shrimp & Spinach. Healthy aging has never tasted so good.