Weight of the nation

Neville Rigby: If we are to tackle obesity properly, the whole of society must become involved in the solution

Britain’s first live-in school for fat pupils

Overweight children will learn dieting tips as well as the three Rs at a new private boarding facility

Anyone for table tennis?

Harry Phibbs: Telling overweight people to diet is unlikely to work – what we need is more public ping pong

Politics: Don’t blame obese people for health problems, says Johnson

Health secretary says it does not help the overweight to be told their problems are all their own fault

Beating obesity will take a partnership of state and society

Alan Johnson: It's no good just haranguing people, as David Cameron would, that they're fat and need to shape up. Obesity is a social problem that demands social solutions

We won’t lecture obese people, pledges Alan Johnson

Obese people should not be hectored and lectured to lose weight, the health secretary is to warn

Young pioneers in the frontline of NHS battle against obesity

Programme targets 2,000 families in Rotherham where one in three local children are clinically obese

Lower fertility in men linked to obesity

Men wanting to start a family should lose weight, according to doctors behind new study

Heart disease: US doctors back statins for 8-year-olds

Experts in UK, treating small numbers of high risk children, say wider use of drugs should be discussed

Minister calls for lunchtime lock-in at schools to stop rush for chippie

Shocking new research into schoolchildren's lunch habits adds to concerns over obesity