Could you give up TV for one day a week? Which one?
Stuart Jeffries: Health experts advise that giving up television one day out of every seven would be beneficial to our waistlines. But which day should you choose?
Is sitting down bad for my health?
Luisa Dillner: In short, yes. The more time you spend sitting down, the greater the chances of dying from heart disease or cancer, having a stroke or becoming diabetic. Even doctors now advocate standing up during consultations
Do you know what too fat looks like?
A study suggests that African American women in the US have a different picture of what unhealthy weight looks like than medical experts, prompting suggestions that pictures should be more widely used with health messages to counter the new normality of excess weight
Can we solve Britain’s obesity crisis with gastric surgery? It worked for me
Emma Burnell: Of course prevention is preferable, but when that fails we need a second chance. Like Jenni Murray, I felt my health was at risk
‘I don’t know how to talk to my mum about her being extremely overweight’
She is endangering her health and as her only daughter, the rest of my family feels I should talk to her
Expanding waistlines will cause 3,500 more cancers each year, study finds
Scientists hope that linking 12,000 cancers each year to people being overweight will spark more action against obesity
Bondi fitness scheme turns the tide on treating mental illness
Mark Gould: Australian 'Keeping the Body in Mind' programme imported to boost fitness of UK mental health patients
Take the dodgy diet test
A group of young scientists is warning that diets are sometimes not worth the paper they are printed on - and offering tips and a test to help people who want to lose weight avoid the traps baited by the weightloss industry
The war on fat is over – and I won
Jay Rayner: The killjoys can eat humble pie. Dairy and red meat fats aren't bad for you – and now there are hard figures to back up the case I've been making for years
The Shape We’re In review – sobering reflections on the obesity epidemic
Sarah Boseley's examination of the causes and consequences of obesity in the UK is salutary, but does not go far enough, writes Joanna Blythman