A stone house in Dorset will appear in a national television programme to showcase how much the average person will eat, drink, spend and waste in their lifetime.

The site at Nether Cerne close to the famous chalk giant at Cerne Abbas has been chosen as the setting for Human Footprint, a Channel 4 television documentary which takes a fascinating statistical look at our lives.

Our cradle-to-grave journey - we will each use 3,796 disposable nappies and 4,239 rolls of toilet paper - is due to hit TV screens at 9pm tomorrow.

Producer Nick Watts told the Echo: "We chose Nether Cerne because I live in Dorset just outside Shaftesbury and I know Nether Cerne very well, so it was an obvious place to start our research.

"We wanted to choose somewhere that was quintessentially British and that was almost the ideal of a perfect place to live."

Mr Watts will bring the sheer scale of our lives - an average of 78.5 years - dramatically to life with some spectacular art sets to represent some of the things we consume.

These include an omelette of 13,345 smashed eggs, a giant apple made from 5,272 eating apples, a giant carrot made from 10,866 carrots, a summerhouse built from 10,354 bars of chocolate, a bath with 845 tins of baked beans in it, a carpet of 15,913 bottles of milk and 4,283 loaves of bread - naturally laid out on Gold Hill, Shaftesbury, where Hovis filmed their famous commercial.

Each of us will also get through 77,000 cigarettes, 10,351 pints of beer and 1,694 bottles of wine, not to mention 4.5 cows, 21 sheep, 15 pigs, 1,201 chickens, 2.32 tons of potatoes and 74,802 cups of tea.

Information provided by statisticians also reveals that we will each have 1,700 friends and acquaintances and, grimly, that 305 of them will die from heart disease, 179 from strokes, 111 from flu or pneumonia, 99 from lung cancer, 92 from lower respiratory diseases, 63 from dementia or Alzheimer's disease, 49 from cancer of the colon and 32 from breast cancer.

We will each know 10 people who have committed suicide, nine who died in road accidents and one in a fire, while one in three of us will know someone who has been murdered. We'll also each shed 121 pints of tears, make 314 visits to the doctor and swallow 30,000 tablets.

Going back to basics, each of us will have sex 4,239 times, pass wind 35,815 times, vomit 149 litres, blink our eyes 415 million times, have 7,163 baths and get through 656 bars of soap, 198 bottles of shampoo, 272 deodorants, 276 tubes of toothpaste, 78 toothbrushes, 35 tubes of styling gel, 37 bottles of perfume, 68 bottles of nail varnish and 56 tubes of lipstick.

We will speak 4,300 words a day - more for a woman, less for a man - read 533 books, consign 40 tons of waste to the rubbish dump and spend eight years of our life on the sofa in front of the television.

We'll also take 59 foreign trips, get through eight cars driving 452,662 miles and walk an average of 197 miles a year or 15,464 in a lifetime.

Santa will bring each of us 628 Christmas presents, we'll spend £30,301 on clothes, £552,722 on housing, £286,311 on taxes and £236,312 on leisure towards a total lifetime bill of £1,537,380. And if all this looks like a statisticians dream ... then it will be just one of the 104,390 dreams each of us will have.