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Diet >> Gym You burn a lot of calories in a day, the extra little you burn from exercise is moot if you are scoffing down the wrong food.

So we agree, then, that a person should dramatically increase his or her activity level throughout the day (e.g. walk the streets).

However, I'm going to nitpick and say that you're wrong about the gym. Currently, I burn about 1,000 calories on each trip to the gym, every other day. That's a 500 calorie deficit that I'm adding each day. In addition, my body is using additional calories to rebuild muscle, and the additional muscle is consuming calories to maintain itself. It's kind of like compounding interest.

The gyms have an economic incentive to make people sign up, but not go to them. It's hardly a failure of people to want to go to the gym but stop, if the gym is purposely designed to be as boring as possible.

if the gym is purposely designed to be as boring as possible.

A gym is precisely as boring as the inside of your head.

I recommend audio books.

"We"?

Collectively, as a society, compared to that of, say, 1914.