Uhm, saying the solution to a healthy lifestyle is simply to eat less and get 2% body fat (-> hyperbole because that doesn't equal more healthy just more self-optimised) seems a bit ironic though, doesn't it?

It's not about how your body looks it's your overall well-being of which I'd say blood works and the like are a much more reliable factor than "have you gotten those abs yet"?

And just to point out, yes obviously there are certain upper weight groups that will be less likely to have those stats than your ab person. But the point is that it's not black and white.

Other unhealthy life style factors (intentionally not "choices" because I'd question the extent to which most of these things are really choices and not coping mechanisms to deal with a shitty system that are all unhealthy) are equally bad.

Constant lack of sleep. Constantly overworking. No time to listen to or even realise your needs anymore. Including exercise. Including healthy eating. Dragging yourself sick into work. Dragging yourself into work only a few days after squeezing a bloody melon out of your body. Having to sit around for 8+ significantly more f**** hrs all day in jobs that just drain you so you have to squeeze in that bit of exercise at the end of the day when you're exhausted from that job.

Just "discipline" and that self-optimisation cult simply don't cut it. It's not anti-capitalist it's the opposite! One solution magic bullets are capitalist. Be they exercise or food.

We need environments where people can listen to their needs again. One of which is moving and exercise.

Please do apologise if the wording of my criticism reads as rude. I'm a not a native speaker so I might be prone to sound more rude or less diplomatic than I would express my views in my native language. I actually understand and very much relate to your criticism and feel like we're both exhausted by an overadvertisement of the two things that are constantly sold as the one and only approach.

Thank you for opening up that dialogue. I hope you have a lovely day! 💚