I find that a lot of fitness advice for the "ordinary overweight" adapts something from either athletic training, or physical therapy. Dietary advice likewise t

I find that a lot of fitness advice for the "ordinary overweight" adapts something from either athletic training, or physical therapy. Dietary advice likewise tends towards weighty, religious entreaties like "avoid all carbs". These things do not slot into a modern lifestyle easily - what we need a lot of is "passive fitness" measures akin to the "take the stairs instead of the elevator" or "bike instead of using your car" advice. When the availability is good, on average you end up taking the healthy option more often. But, to get there we will have to have a built environment and social norms that support it. The trends have been positive, but much more is still possible. "physique = fitness" is a particularly bad normalized metric(with understandable origins), and we should be encouraging people to use a real fitness test to judge themselves.