Dr Richard Weiler, a specialist registrar in sport medicine, has said that a lack of exercise is the root cause of more illnesses such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes, mental health problems and high blood pressure than body fat. Writing in the British Medical Journal, he called for public health policies to focus more on increasing physical activity, and added that spending huge amounts of money on treating obesity was the wrong way forward. -- Daily Telegraph, May 26, 2010