News tagged with lifestyle
For common toy breed dog windpipe issue, veterinarians use technology and precision
Jack, a 12-year-old Yorkshire terrier, was lethargic and gasping for air when he arrived at the University of Missouri Veterinary Hospital. His tongue and gums were a bluish-purple. But, just one day following ...
Oct 04, 2011 |
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'Do Life' urges Americans to turn things around
Can a blog by an overweight, depressed American introvert who reinvented himself as an Ironman and public speaker start a grassroots campaign that leads to lasting lifestyle changes in a country known for excess?
Jun 28, 2011 |
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Exceptional fossils reveal the earliest evidence of social behavior in mammals
Evidence of lifestyle and social behavior is almost never preserved in the fossil record. Now, a group of researchers from the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (Paris), CNRS (Paris) and Museo de Historia ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 09, 2011 |
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The British quest for better way of life explored in new study
The British quest for better way of life is explored in the first research study to look at the everyday lives of the British living in France.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 09, 2011 |
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What can movie stars tell us about marriage? That education matters, study finds
Movie stars: Is there anything they can't tell us?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 27, 2011 |
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Dietary, lifestyle changes can significantly reduce triglycerides
Dietary and lifestyle changes significantly reduce elevated triglycerides (a type of blood fat) -- which is associated with heart, blood vessel and other diseases -- according to an American Heart Association scientific statement.
Apr 18, 2011 |
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New link between mother's pregnancy diet and offspring's chances of obesity found
Scientists have discovered that a mother's nutrition during pregnancy can strongly influence her child's risk of obesity many years later.
Apr 18, 2011 |
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Pacific nations battle obesity epidemic
On Tonga's supermarket shelves, huge cans of corned beef the size of paint tins replaced traditional fare such as fish and coconuts long ago -- contributing to an obesity epidemic that sees the Pacific region ranked as the ...
Apr 10, 2011 |
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Regular retail therapy prolongs life
A spot of regular retail therapy really does seem to help people live longer, suggests research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
Apr 07, 2011 |
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Cardiovascular patients' perspectives on guilt as a motivational tool
Current research supports the notion that lifestyle choices influence cardiovascular health, but to what extent specific emotions play is undefined. Now, new research from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine ...
Apr 04, 2011 |
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Load up on fiber now, avoid heart disease later
A new study from Northwestern Medicine shows a high-fiber diet could be a critical heart-healthy lifestyle change young and middle-aged adults can make. The study found adults between 20 and 59 years old with the highest ...
Mar 22, 2011 |
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Diabetes belt identified in southern United States
In the 1960s, a group of U.S. states with high age-adjusted stroke mortality defined a "stroke belt." Until recently, geographic patterns of diabetes had not been specifically characterized in the same manner. In an article ...
Mar 08, 2011 |
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Effects of alcohol on risk factors for cardiovascular disease
A summary paper on the effects of alcohol consumption on biologic mechanisms associated with coronary heart disease provides an excellent review of a large number of intervention studies in humans. Appropriate analyses were ...
Mar 07, 2011 |
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Intervention helps women manage weight during and after pregnancy
Excessive weight gain isn't healthy at any stage of life, but during pregnancy it can do lasting harm to the mother and baby alike. Now researchers at Brown University and The Miriam Hospital are encouraged by a new study ...
Feb 28, 2011 |
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Diet and exercise restore immune function in obesity
(PhysOrg.com) -- Boston University scientists say that moderate daily exercise and dietary control might reverse immune dysfunctions found in people with obesity.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 25, 2011 |
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Lifestyle
Lifestyle was originally coined by Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler in 1929. The current broader sense of the word dates from 1961.
In sociology, a lifestyle is the way a person lives. A lifestyle is a characteristic bundle of behaviors that makes sense to both others and oneself in a given time and place, including social relations, consumption, entertainment, and dress. The behaviors and practices within lifestyles are a mixture of habits, conventional ways of doing things, and reasoned actions. A lifestyle typically also reflects an individual's attitudes, values or worldview. Therefore, a lifestyle is a means of forging a sense of self and to create cultural symbols that resonate with personal identity. Not all aspects of a lifestyle are entirely voluntaristic. Surrounding social and technical systems can constrain the lifestyle choices available to the individual and the symbols she/he is able to project to others and the self.
The lines between personal identity and the everyday doings that signal a particular lifestyle become blurred in modern society. For example, "green lifestyle" means holding beliefs and engaging in activities that consume fewer resources and produce less harmful waste (i.e. a smaller carbon footprint), and deriving a sense of self from holding these beliefs and engaging in these activities. Some commentators argue that, in modernity, the cornerstone of lifestyle construction is consumption behavior, which offers the possibility to create and further individualize the self with different products or services that signal different ways of life.
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