The Whitehall fat police can do their worst. No one is going to get between me and my mini-rolls

Tanya Gold: So what can the government possibly do to stop people like me from getting fat?

‘Healthy towns’ to fight obesity

Manchester and Portsmouth among nine areas included in £30m initiative unveiled by health secretary, Alan Johnson

Jamie Oliver has said the government needs to invest £6.5bn in culinary education and appoint a minister of food

Alex Stein: Being tested for STDs once or twice a year should be standard practice for anyone who's sexually active

Council plans to ban new takeaways opening within 400 metres of schools, youth centres and parks

Councils are buying into TV chef Jamie Oliver's big ideas, but some people find them hard to swallow. By Helen Pidd

Nick Clegg: Labour's centralised NHS is over. Patients must get the treatment they want when they need it – and that means top-up payments

Catherine Bennett: Even as they preach against the evils of obesity, some Conservatives are not exactly setting a good example

'Tell people biology and environment cause obesity and you offer them an excuse,' shadow health secretary says

Proposals on how government and business can work together to address problems