24 APRIL 2020

UNIT 10: WE ARE WHAT WE EAT

Lesson: Achieving a healthy lifestyle (Reading and vocabulary) pag. 88

1. What do you consider a healthy lifestyle?

2. What are the most important elements that could define a healthy lifestyle?

Read the text to get details about lifestyle.

“In sociology, a lifestyle is the way a person (or a group) lives. This includes patterns of social
relations, consumption, entertainment, and dress. A lifestyle typically also reflects an individual's
attitudes, values or worldview. A lifestyle can be used to forge a sense of self identity and to
create cultural symbols for the way a person is. The behaviors and practices within lifestyles are
a mixture of habits, conventional ways of doing things, and reasoned actions. In business,
lifestyles refer to patterns in which people live, spend time and money. These patterns are
reflected by demographical factors (the habits, attitudes, tastes, moral standards, economic level
and so on… that together constitute the mode of living of an individual or group); that include
things such as the individual's activities in addition to their interests. The term “lifestyle” first
appeared in 1939. Alvin Toffler predicted an explosion of lifestyles (“subcults”) as diversity
increases in post-industrial societies.” ( www.wikipedia.org.)