Start with children

Leader: There are now 1 million obese children under 16 living in the UK, one-third of Europe's total.

Call to regulate gender-bending chemicals

Scientists press for urgent curb on endocrine disrupters.

Chips face the chop as schools get healthy

Chips should not be served to pupils more than once a week and salt must be banished from their tables.

Hewitt scrubs up to track down the new NHS billions

More money has been spent on the health service than ever before but are the government's ambitious reforms working? Jo Revill reports.