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A small movement of the average (27 to 25) could consist of 1/5 of the population losing 10 points, rather than everyone losing 2 points. So quite a few people could have their health improved, even granting the unsourced 20-35 BMI iso-health range. Terrible reasoning.
As for the second point, encouraging people to get married (or Jesus) because of a correlation is very cargo-cult. At least with rural living, there's some credible mechanism for health-improvement (reduction in air and noise pollution). I'm sympathetic to the general theme: that the health advocacy I hear is filtered and biased, but I'd like some evidence of taboo health-suggestions that are at least as effective as popular ones.
I believe that "encouraging people to get married (or Jesus)" was said sarcastically. There were a couple times he used sarcasm that didn't really come through in the text, but could only be figured out be rereading and considering what message he was trying to convey.
I don't think it was sarcasm - religion and marriage are both strongly correlated with health.