These Olympian feats can inspire our obese nation
Jackie Ashley: The achievements of our sports stars can do more for our youngsters than any number of food education programmes
‘My body is wrong’
Should children who believe they are transgender be helped to change sex? Viv Groskop meets the parents and doctors in favour of intervention
What’s the best way to get pregnant?
Fertility treatment no more effective than recommendations on when couples should have sex
How to tell parents their child is overweight
Are we right to protect parents from negative terms such as fat and obese, asks Sara Gaines
Health: Official letters to warn parents if their child is obese or overweight
Department of Health announce plans to tackle obesity epidemic but avoid 'negative' words
Britain’s first live-in school for fat pupils
Overweight children will learn dieting tips as well as the three Rs at a new private boarding facility
Tanfastic? I don’t think so
Carrie Quinlan: What with schoolkids overdoing the fake tan, what's so wrong with just being the colour you are – even if it is grey?
Health: Breastfed babies more receptive to tastes, say food research scientists
Different foods in mother's diet cause subtle shifts in the flavour of breast milk tests show
Young pioneers in the frontline of NHS battle against obesity
Programme targets 2,000 families in Rotherham where one in three local children are clinically obese
The sex factor
Britain has the highest teenage-pregnancy rate in western Europe, but efforts to curb it through earlier sex education are enraging the rightwing press and making parents squirm. So how can schools get the balance right? Mary Braid investigates