MPs deliver ultimatum to food industry
The food and advertising industries were put on three years' notice last night to change their pricing and promotion policies to help tackle the obesity epidemic. By James Mekle.
‘Children will die before their parents’
The warning from the Commons health select committee is stark. 'Should the gloomier scenarios relating to obesity turn out to be true, the sight of amputees will become much more familiar in the streets of Britain.'
Spreading out of control
Leader: Once again the impressive Commons select committee on health has sounded a wake-up call with a devastating report on obesity.
Revealed: how food firms target children
Methods used by the food industry to target children have been uncovered by the Guardian on the day MPs publish a damning account of the government's 'woefully inadequate' response to obesity. By Felicity Lawrence.
Food firms go all the way to No 10 in fight over what we eat
Letters, lunches, dinners, briefings. Felicity Lawrence and Rob Evans reveal how the food industry is lobbying relentlessly to steer ministers away from regulation in the war against obesity.
The world prepares to tackle obesity
The first global plan to combat the growing threat of obesity was finally agreed yesterday, despite intensive pressure from the sugar lobby to weaken the proposals. By Jo Revill and Gaby Hinsliff.
Fast food industry accused of using Charles
Campaigners say prince is unwitting front for attempt by multinationals to question causes of obesity.
Want to be slim? Cut your blood supply
Scientists have found a new way to make the obese slim again - by cutting off the blood supply to the layers of fat that are a health hazard for hundreds of millions of people.