But with this sophistication have we made things too easy with too much choice and too many ways of being comfortable. That person would have faced a good few problems but sitting behind a desk getting soggy muscles would not have been one. Imagine how odd the concept of going to a gym would be to a farm worker of 200 years ago.

One is the availability of food, year in year out you can eat as much as you want, easily, and what an unseen amount of choice we have. As the leading organism on the planet we have certainly achieved a great deal in the few thousand years we have enjoyed this enviable position.

I think we can look at the lifestyle we have today and identify a few problem areas, most the spoils from our success. Food producers bombard us with information and stimulus to buy their product, the health food industry has sprung up in the last 70 years to supply more information and more products. Eating For a Healthy Life I often ponder on the marvel of the human machine, what it is capable of and how robust it is in the face of the modern scenario of high stress manic living.

Not such a good thing sometimes is it.