This seems to be humanity’s collective goal -- how to stay fit. At this point in time, a healthy lifestyle has become an obsession of sorts, even though the average increase in life span may owe itself to certain public health initiatives and leaps in medical science.

This excessive fitness concern is obviously an outcome of the plenty experienced by mankind in terms of food production that is a lot more than is required for human consumption. The choices in food are certainly more in an age where people are leading sedentary lives.

The influence of media and social media has had a magnifying effect, making people more worried about their appearance than anything else. There are huge commercial benefits to be reaped and entire industries have been built to create a need for certain kinds of foods and fitness regimes.

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Doctors pale in the face of nutritionists whose prescriptions may all differ drastically from each other. The dairy industry ruled for decades, building on people’s fears about their physique and bones, before it was called out. Or was it? And then the plethora of diet plans and a whole list of wonder foods that keep getting replaced with new and more expensive ones.

In today’s Special Report, we have tried to bring some method to our everyday conversations about fitness. The idea is to let people step back and think about what they are doing with their lives. Are they eating well, exercising enough or are they overdoing it and letting go of the simple pleasures of life? What is the perfect balance? Have they figured it out yet? That will certainly differ from individual to individual, depending on their particular situation. Over to everyone’s fitness goals!