Why I am dreaming of free lunches
Mariella Frostrup: Children aren't obese just for the heck of it, but because many low-income families survive on a diet that went out of fashion in the late Seventies.
Government plans child weight warnings for parents
Official warnings could be sent to the parents of obese children as young as five, in a sign of the increasing government concern about the obesity crisis.
A sizeable problem
The Foresight report has produced a remarkable change of gear in the debate on obesity. The issue can no longer be ignored.
Trusts raided public health cash in panic over funding
NHS trusts across England syphoned off almost £100m from government funds intended to combat obesity, alcohol abuse and sexually transmitted infections as a panic measure to escape financial crisis, public health chiefs revealed yesterday.
Too big for their genes?
Obese people should be helped to tackle their problem, not encouraged to believe it's all the fault of genetics.
A fat report, thin on ideas
Paul Gately: Today's Foresight report diagnoses the obesity epidemic, but the government must now realise that to tackle this crisis will take resources and leadership.
Johnson calls for fundamental shift on obesity crisis
Health secretary says individuals cannot be blamed for problem.
Date for halting childhood obesity slips back 10 years
· Primarolo acts as report shows size of problem· Effects predicted to cost Britain £45bn a year