God has endowed humans with a good life span. Every individual has a right as well as duty towards himself and his family to live to that age and live it well without health problems.

Today’s executive, well paid though he or she is, is an overworked and overstressed individual. Scientific advances of the last two decades, while making life more comfortable, have also made it more hectic with computers, faxes, e-mail and jets.

He is running hard to meet multiple deadlines to beat the highly competitive world without any rest or respite. These are ideal conditions to wear him down and land him into an early burn out syndrome of disorders and diseases consequent on such a fast paced life success in life and career cannot be achieved, much less maintained without good health. The working executives, self employed individuals, have not only to ensure a healthy working life but also a healthy old age free of trouble.

Change is the law of nature. Nothing remains static in this world. This fact is equally true of the human body.

Nature has provided vast reserves in our body systems. As age advances these reserves are more and more encroached upon and age related decrements in physiological functions become inevitable metabolic processes and body reflexes slow down and the ability to withstand stress and strain is reduced.

The natural process of ageing under normal circumstances is so gradual that it is hardly perceptible. Industrialization and urbanization are occurring at breakneck speed. People are on the move from rural to urban areas and from urban to metropolitan cities.

Reports indicate a disturbing rise in the incidence and severity of chronic degenerative diseases like hypertension and diabetes and their complication. The phenomenon is associated with altered living patterns on the style of developed western societies where life is more sedentary, obesity is common intake of salt, sugar, fat and alcohol is high and response to stress is muted by social pressures.