The obesity epidemic has been thirty years in the making. If we can’t make a compelling case for the role of exercise by now, is it reasonable to suggest that is because there isn’t one? If a comprehensive report, with 84 references, written by two organisations which, it would be fair to say, are likely to have a positive view of the benefits of exercise, can only find that the data “are not particularly compelling”, perhaps it is time to look at the problem in a different way.
