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This category is designed to accommodate everyone about living a long and healthy life. These guides will be of particular interest to parents, carers of the elderly, medical staff, teachers, and those working within the public domain and community. It is also suitable for anyone who simple wants to take control of their life and lead a healthier lifestyle. 

Lifestyle is the way a person lives. A lifestyle is a characteristic bundle of behaviours that makes sense to both others and oneself in a given time and place, including social relations, consumption, entertainment, and dress. The behaviours 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. The guides in this section have been developed to give a greater understanding of various lifestyles, and will be of particular benefit to people who are looking for a change in lifestyle such as becoming "greener", more healthier (stop smoking, eating habits etc) or volunteering a few hours to a particular cause.