Children’s sugar intake equals five doughnuts a day, campaigners say
Obesity Health Alliance calls for food and drink makers to cut ‘hidden’ sugar to curb dangerous obesity among young people
Here’s the real recipe for healthy eating: a big fat serving of education
Artificial sweeteners might be fattening us up, say scientists. It’s time to ditch the diet drinks, gen up and take responsibility for bad food habits
What is belly fat and how can you shift it?
Visceral, or belly, fat, clings to our internal organs and is particularly nasty, being linked to increased risk of heart disease, stroke and cancer. But there is a simple solution to shedding it
Sugar is the ‘alcohol of the child’, yet we let it dominate the breakfast table
With kids consuming half their sugar quota first thing, it’s no wonder they’re getting diabetes and liver disease. We have to fight corporate interests
How the world got fat: a visualisation of global obesity over 40 years
It’s hard to understand or even believe the contagious way that obesity has spread virally around the world - so Max Galka created this visualisation
Let them eat nuts: dentists want office ‘cake culture’ to end in 2017
Royal College of Surgeons dental faculty also urges firms to provide fruit and nuts instead of biscuits at meetings
Eat less? Drink less? In the Year of Dying Too Soon we need to get real
Public Health England’s campaign for healthier lifestyles feels like a party pooper in a world where the party’s the thing. And that’s just the start of its problems
Eight in 10 middle-aged Britons ‘are overweight or exercise too little’
Public Health England launches campaign aimed at 40 to 60-year-olds, 83% of whom weigh too much or drink above guidelines
The game improving a community’s health without them noticing
Beat the Street, designed by a GP, turns a town into a game where participants walk, cycle or run between sensors
Yo-yo weight gain driven by gut bacteria’s ‘memory’ of obesity, says study
Regaining weight after a diet could be linked to changes in microbiome caused by obesity, not simply a return to bad eating habits