Fat is a humanist issue
Marianne Kirby: Want to know what it's like to be fat? It means facing a constant barrage of humiliation from people who feel entitled to comment
Obesity: what a waist
Neville Rigby: Public health campaigns make a fetish of BMI – body mass index. In reality, it's a fat lot of good compared to a tape measure
Obesity epidemic: case studies
A mother-of-three and a teenager talk about their experiences of obesity
The Simpsons’ obesity drive
Neville Rigby: The health department thinks Homer and family can promote healthier lifestyles. D'oh! Or should that be DoH?
A restraint too far
Peter Preston: Calls for a ban on alcohol advertising are wide of the mark. We need more education and persuasion
‘Lose the breasts. Go vegetarian,’ is message to men from animal rights group Peta
Billboard linking meat-eating with man boobs is put up in Glasgow by campaign group
Now you see it, now you don’t
Pictures of models and celebrities are routinely altered to rid them of every 'flaw'. So much so, that when a woman with a tummy appeared in a US fashion magazine it attracted global attention. Could the airbrushers' days finally be numbered?
Taxes on heavily-sweetened foods should be raised, study suggests
Research group's report calls for state and local governments to take action against obesity
Weightloss pill investigated for liver damage
Slimming drug, sold over the counter as Alli, investigated in the US after 32 reports of serious liver injury
Nearly half of Irish are overweight, says survey
Some 60% of men and 40% of women weigh in with a body mass index of more than 25