As the twenty-first century begins, consumers are demanding advancements in business operations to help simplify their hectic lifestyles. The progression of lifestyle changes, in combination with technological evolution, will influence the way business...

It might be said that, whether conscious of it or not, everyone has a lifestyle. From this perspective, lifestyle refers simply to the defining characteristics or qualities of a particular way of life, be it of an individual, a nation, or an entire...

Lifestyles are a major determinant of who shall live and who shall die (Fuchs 1974; McKinlay and Marceau 1999). Mechanic (1978, p. 164) argues that the concept of lifestyles refers to a diverse set of variables, including nutrition, housing, health...

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...

Two years ago, Trini Perez almost never ate fish. Now, it's a regular part of her diet, if grudgingly. After her husband Ricardo suffered heart problems last year, the couple from the Spanish city of Valencia took part in Euroaction, a project...

Tucked in a region of galloping suburban growth is a Southern California town where the sidewalks are horse trails and there's a ride-through McDonald's.Norco is self-proclaimed Horsetown USA, population 27,000, plus as many as 20,000 horses.Yet for all its Wild West trappings, Norco is struggling...

Leadership: If the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences or the Nobel Committee handed out prizes for demonstrating unsurpassed hypocrisy, Al Gore and John Edwards should be among the first recipients.Gore, driven by a narcissistic compulsion to save the planet, has been nagging Americans...