Tax and regulate sugar like alcohol and tobacco, urge scientists

Sugar is as toxic to the liver as alcohol and is at the root of obesity and certain types of liver disease, claim US scientists

Obesity, battered sausage and me

For years, Hopi Sen consumed huge quantities of food – and got fat. Then one day, he stopped. So what changed?

Figures also reveal that more young people are obese in Britain than any other country in Europe

Panel's members criticised health secretary's decision to tackle obesity through 'responsibility deals' with food and drinks firms

Cancer charity attributes Britain's poor global placing – equal with Rwanda – to high alcohol intake and growing obesity

A small study suggests the grape extract resveratrol has similar metabolic effects to exercise and calorie restriction

Health secretary sets out 'national ambition' to cut 5bn calories a day from Britons' daily diet

Jamie Oliver: The government's obesity strategy is worthless, patronising rubbish. Eight-year-olds would come up with better ideas

Breakthroughs in our understanding of digestion suggest it will soon be possible to suppress the appetite

Overweight people referred by doctors to commercial organisation lost twice as much fat as others