Except there are classes of people (often athletes or former athletes) that are spectacularly good at using exercise/staying fit.
And there are examples like Iceland (this is secondhand from when Iceland made the World Cup, I don't have stats) where strongly enforced/encouraged sports participation leads to huge generational improvements in overall health.
Exercise has a 1 month hump. You need to stick to it for 1 month before it sticks and your body's endorphin rush + increased pain tolerance overcomes the initial discomfort/shock of exercise. One month is obviously a long way.
It does seem insurmountable to some degree based on decades of slow descent to the obesity valley that is America, but there are counterexamples in the world.
But we also have never had a government that REALLY embraced comprehensive fitness and health policies over a generational timespan, despite ample evidence it would improve productivity, reduce health care costs, increase mental health, improve quality of life, increase intelligence, improve cooperation / social interaction / culture, and probably increase fecundity and turn around the demographic declines of advanced first world economies.
That means extensive changes to schooling, heavily incentivizing the reconfiguration of urban centers for more human power transport, lots of facilities, probably a sea change of health care policy. There are huge and powerful lobbies that would probably kill those initiatives, from big corn syrup, big tobacco, big media, AMA, etc.
And there are examples like Iceland (this is secondhand from when Iceland made the World Cup, I don't have stats) where strongly enforced/encouraged sports participation leads to huge generational improvements in overall health.
Exercise has a 1 month hump. You need to stick to it for 1 month before it sticks and your body's endorphin rush + increased pain tolerance overcomes the initial discomfort/shock of exercise. One month is obviously a long way.
It does seem insurmountable to some degree based on decades of slow descent to the obesity valley that is America, but there are counterexamples in the world.
But we also have never had a government that REALLY embraced comprehensive fitness and health policies over a generational timespan, despite ample evidence it would improve productivity, reduce health care costs, increase mental health, improve quality of life, increase intelligence, improve cooperation / social interaction / culture, and probably increase fecundity and turn around the demographic declines of advanced first world economies.
That means extensive changes to schooling, heavily incentivizing the reconfiguration of urban centers for more human power transport, lots of facilities, probably a sea change of health care policy. There are huge and powerful lobbies that would probably kill those initiatives, from big corn syrup, big tobacco, big media, AMA, etc.