Health: Official letters to warn parents if their child is obese or overweight

Department of Health announce plans to tackle obesity epidemic but avoid 'negative' words

Parents to receive letters if children are obese

Measurements taken at schools could be automatically sent to parents from the autumn, under a Department of Health scheme

Effective solutions to obesity appear to be junked

Victoria Macdonald: It is not going to work only to say exercise more or eat five fruit and veg a day, because that is tinkering at the edges

Beware of the fatties!

Abby O'Reilly: The overweight are now being blamed for their thinner friends' weight gain – it's just another attack on the fat, dressed up as science

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