Healthy through sport: "The desire to suffer for health is stronger today"

Exercise and good nutrition are becoming more and more important in medicine.

For the medical historian Wolfgang Eckart these are old ideas - it is new that so many people participate voluntarily.

But he considers the fixation of self-care to be a double-edged sword - because for some people the disease is a genetic fate.

Mr. Eckart, diet and exercise have been a big topic in medicine for several years.

Where does that come from all at once?