‘I had a heart attack. It saved my life’

Last year Labour MP Peter Kilfoyle came close to death. This year he's trekking 140 miles across Nicaragua. Anushka Asthana reports.

Read my labels

Veronica Horwell gorges on Dana Thomas' Deluxe, an investigation into the modern attitude to luxury.

Flab grab

Raj Patel illuminates the failures of the global food system in Stuffed and Starved, says Felicity Lawrence.

Womb to tomb replaces cradle to grave as focus for health service

· Campaigns to tackle obesity and alcoholism · Deprived areas targeted in drive for healthy lifestyles

Pregnant women to get cash for good diet

· £120 grant to buy fruit and vegetables · Brown rejects 'nanny state' criticism

Official: obesity risk to half of all children

· Rising numbers 'alarming' - minister · New rules on healthy school meals

Pro-choice lobby seeks change in law to ease restrictions on abortion

· Reform to be urged at London conference · Move to allow midwives to perform some procedures

Brown and Cameron going head to head over NHS

David Cameron and Gordon Brown both want to win the argument on the NHS - the issue that could decide the next election, writes Hélène Mulholland.