The early morning stretch
How to tackle obesity and meet the extended schools target? Breakfast fitness clubs might be the answer to both. Joanna Moorhead reports.
Healthy eating is an acquired taste
To prevent the problem of obesity education, not coercion, is surely the answer.
Too fat for a family?
Fertility experts announced this week that overweight women should not be allowed IVF on the NHS. Are there good medical reasons - or do we just not like the idea of fat people breeding? By Kira Cochrane.
Shopping for change
Leader: There is a great deal the government can do to help overweight people without falling foul of the familiar charge of nannying.
Super-size Britain must curb junk food ads, say campaigners
75% of men and 60% of women could be overweight by 2010.
An appetite for control
Annalisa Barbieri: Blaming obesity on TV or junk food ignores the way we meddle with babies' natural feeding instincts.
Britain faces weight crisis with one in three men likely to be obese by 2010
· Poor eating habits and sedentary lifestyle blamed · Minister calls for strategy for greater public fitness