British study finds genetic link to child obesity
A study of more than 5,000 pairs of twins has found that a child's risk of becoming overweight is mostly down to nature, not nurture
Fitness versus flab
Andrée Deane: In fighting obesity, pills and diet management are only one part of the equation: the other is to take more exercise
Drug prescriptions for obesity soar to 1.06m
More than 1m prescriptions for obesity drugs were written last year, an eightfold rise in seven years
Obesity drug prescriptions top 1m
The number of drug prescriptions to treat obesity has exceeded 1m in a year for the first time, government statistics show
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
The war on obesity must be won round the cabinet table
Marina Hyde: Instead of parading overweight teenagers on TV, ministers should own up to, and work on, their own hideous habits
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
Overweight people could be offered cash to lose pounds
· Government health idea follows US study· Children are main focus of ministers' obesity strategy