The early morning stretch

How to tackle obesity and meet the extended schools target? Breakfast fitness clubs might be the answer to both. Joanna Moorhead reports.

Musings, in other words

Natasha Walter is disappointed by Adam Phillips's discourse on the relationship between psychoanalysis and fiction, Side Effects.

Adam Feinstein assesses five very different views of autism, a condition that affects many people today.

To prevent the problem of obesity education, not coercion, is surely the answer.

University is not usually synonymous with gastronomic heaven - but if you learn to cook, it can nourish body and soul.

Special tactics are needed in many schools to ensure it isn't only boys who think exercise can be fun. By Julian Gibbs.

It's not easy deciding when someone is or isn't a person. John Crace meets the latest professor to try.