Blaxter, Mildred, Health and lifestyles. Ways or patterns of living involve widely different combinations of specific behavioral practices that may characterize subgroups of the population. Preoccupation with specific behavioral practices interferes with the process of obtaining knowledge about the health enhancing or health damaging effects of different patterns of daily life. It also ignores the cultural and situational determinants of lifestyles and the importance of realistic options for living in wys that may be more health enhancing. Not only is the market-place celebrated but an understanding of the 'natural body' itself becomes fetishised and idolised.
Normality seems to have wholly dispensed with bodily illness and pain.
Perfection is the norm, and one that can be gained through acquiring the correct products and perfecting the body. Dickens, Peter, Society and nature. Towards a green social theory. But in the end fate or destiny is seen as taking its toll. People die, to use a commonly used phrase, 'when their number's up'.