America’s healthy debate on food
Amanda Marcotte: Culture warriors try to cast anti-obesity advice as bossy elitism, but the bottom line is we all know we have a big problem
The gym is a genius con we should be ashamed to fall for
Zoe Williams: This dressing up of vanity in the sackcloth of good health obscures the basic fact that exercise won't make us thin – just hungry
A third of children leaving primary school are overweight, report reveals
The number of pupils classified as obese is also rising, new NHS statistics show
More than one in 20 pregnant women severely obese
NHS is ill-equipped to cope with heavier mothers, increased health risks and higher likelihood of stillbirths
Letting the food industry shape policy will ruin a century of progress
Response: Initiatives must be led by science if we are to bring the obesity epidemic under control, says Joe Millward
Andrew Lansley’s Department of Big Macs
Philip James: By cosying up to the food industry the health secretary is ignoring all scientific thinking on obesity
McDonald’s and PepsiCo to help write UK health policy
Exclusive: Department of Health putting fast food companies at heart of policy on obesity, alcohol and diet-related disease
Obesity crisis ‘cannot be solved by exercise alone’
Study urges severely obese to eat more healthily, finding that forgoing a small sandwich is as effective as a one-hour run
Arabella Weir: I weighed my parents’ love on the bathroom scales
'I soon learned never to express hunger around them and to eat in secret, thereby developing an inextricable emotional link between what I ate and my ability to be loved'
Lucy Mangan: Toryboy’s turning into a weight on my mind
He won't eat veg, he loves junk food and he won't exercise. So why is my husband in the least bit surprised that he's getting rather flabby?