In general, we have embraced our sedentary environment and, as such, perhaps ought not consider ourselves victims of these (mostly) self-inflicted chronic diseases.
The man who did most to make economists and politicians arrogant - to make them think they could bend the world to their will - also gave them, or ought to have given them, the very best reasons for self-doubt.
Perhaps it is not from the benevolence of politicians, school administrators and teachers unions that we ought to expect our children to become better educated, but from the self-interest of entrepreneurs in a competitive education market.
The solution they seem to miss resides in a direct appeal to business self-interest, emphasizing how and why Wall Street and its corporate brethren ought to pursue reputational strategies because doing so will generate prophylactic benefits as well as bottom-line enhancements short-term and long.