Lifestyle

A lifestyle is a chosen way of living on the basis of a set of elements, like habits, interests, opinions, moral standards, behaviors, financial statuses, and so on, of an individual or a group. Lifestyle is a combination of psychological and social factors. Social factors include social relations, style of clothing, food consumption choices, recreation, and others, however, psychological factors include depression, anxiety, stress, stability, self-esteem, morality and other behaviors, etc.

Lifestyles of people have been transitioning over the years, with people preferring a modern lifestyle over a traditional lifestyle. In the present times, indigenous and ancient cultural practices are losing their charm in authentic traditional societies, as industrialization and globalization are merging people from various different backgrounds, which is leading to people choosing modern ways of living.

The modern lifestyle has its own advantages and disadvantages. Some of the advantages of the modern lifestyle are easing lives of people, life-saving medicines and vaccines, and other new developments and technologies and some of the disadvantages of modern lifestyle are unhealthy eating habits, increased levels of stress and depression, social isolation due to excessive time spent on computer and internet, etc.