There are still large sections of Western populations who are classified as totally sedentary or inactive, i.e. they don’t do any regular physical activity in their leisure time. It’s quite likely that a large proportion of these people also make up that section of the population regarded as overweight or obese. They are unlikely to spring from their lounge chairs into an aerobics class, even though they may wish to decrease their own creeping corpulence. To them, fitness is anathema. They’d like to be less fat, and possibly more healthy in the process, but they have no real desire to break world records, or be highly ranked among the triathlon set. And they don’t want to miss out on too many of life’s little luxuries to get rid of their excess body fat.

There’s another reason why fitness and fatness are less correlated than thought in the past. Much of the traditional nutrition and exercise advice for increasing fitness is now no longer regarded as appropriate for fat loss. This knowledge has come about through research in the area of exercise physiology, down to the microcellular level, particularly since the early 1980s. The same has not yet happened in the body fat area and scientific knowledge on fat physiology is only just starting to accumulate.

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