The biology of everyday living

✍ Scribed by G. Ainsworth Harrison

• Book ID: 102660532
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 853 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1042-0533
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6300(1996)8:2<291::aid-ajhb14>3.0.co;2-h

✦ Synopsis

The need for documenting details of lifestyle is argued, particularly from the results of studying the everyday life of Oxfordshire villagers. Relationships between lifestyle and well-being are sought through examination of characteristics of sleep and stress hormone excretion. I t is concluded that although epinephrine and cortisol outputs show many relationships with lifestyle in various populations, they are poor measures of well-being. Sleep latency, however, seems to be a component of well-being. Well-being is seen as a n important component of health and thus of the quality-of-life history.