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For some reason, when people talk about a life like a fairy tale, what they picture straight away are idyllic, well-fed scenes of comfort and plenty. And yet take any fairy tale you like and it is all about suffering, misfortune and hardship. The heroes endure and overcome, and all of it for the sake of some static, ephemeral happiness in the future that the tale mentions almost in passing, as a formality. Yuna, for instance, used to compare her life to the tales of “Morozko” and “Cinderella”.

The opening session of a 30-day challenge: better posture, a healthier spine and a muscular armour that finally lets go.

The way its followers see it, the paleo diet means eating what our hunter-gatherer ancestors ate — the food people had before agriculture came along. The theory is that excess weight and most modern diseases can be traced back to grains, dairy and processed food in the daily menu. A fair question does arise — does this diet really give us the same foods our ancestors ate? — yet the benefits of the approach for weight loss

Catch-22 is what happens when you are hemmed in by mutually exclusive rules or conditions that work against you. Try to break one and you comply with the other. Break the other and you have complied with the first. Once such rules or conditions apply to you, you cannot control them, because trying to break them means keeping them. How does Catch-22 show up in real life?