The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.

Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence.

The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.

Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.

Risk concerns future happenings - as related to present practices - and the colonising of the future therefore opens up new settings of risk, some of which are institutionally organised.

The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and pleasure, but also the site of illnesses and strains. (...) [I]t is an action-system, a mode of praxis, and its practical immersion in the interactions of day-to-day life is an essential part of the sustaining of a coherent sense of self-identity.

The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.