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Just heard a 63-year-old gentleman being interviewed and he hasn't yet been told whether it is Alzheimer's he's got or just plain dementia. He wondered aloud why him, and what could have caused it.

This got me pondering about the way we live our lives and the abuses we naughtily subject our bodies to. How many reading this, for example, have got themselves blottoed on a Saturday night, or taken drugs? Life is quite precarious enough without torpedoing our later-life health in those ways. It worries me that we could end up with a basket-case country, full of old people whose behaviour in past years may have led them to being liabilties for the rest of us. I suggest that we all have a duty to remain as healthy as we can, in order that we don't become a burden on the health system.

The young woman smoking a cigarette who we pass in the street; does she spend quite a lot of her time wondering where breast cancer comes from?