EU brings in compulsory food labelling to curb obesity

The European Union yesterday moved to impose standard nutritional information in food labelling across 27 countries in an attempt to counter the epidemic of obesity in Europe, but disappointed some UK health charities by not making the "traffic light" system mandatory

A larger problem

The pledge to become the first major country to reverse the obesity trend is a bold one that will require global recognition to succeed

Counting cost of calories

Michael White: Any MPs who still doubt the prevalence of obesity in Britain's over-fed, couch-potato society could have had their body mass index (BMI) checked yesterday at Cancer Research UK's stall, handily located between the Commons coffee shop and restaurant

Lose weight the self-respect way

Anne Perkins: The breast-beating sermons about obesity ignore the truth; that being fat is a sad side-effect of feeling useless

Food labels simplified in anti-obesity fight

A promise to introduce a single, simple food labelling scheme this year, ending the contradictory and confusing systems, will form the centrepiece of the government's anti-obesity drive today.

Laying it on thick

Rebecca Smithers: Another day, another obesity strategy from the government. This rehash will fail like the rest while the power of the food industry goes unchallenged