80mph speed limit ‘risks rise in road deaths and obesity’ Obesity? and a potential rise in obesity due to more people taking advantage of shorter car journeys. Eh? They’re raising the speed limit on motorways for cock’s sake. A motorway journey is not a subsititute for a waddle around to the corner shop for lardy

Anxious Britons set the standard for obesity, and it's time we did something about it, writes Boris Johnson.

A survey has found that just 6 per cent of new mothers agree that Britain has become a better place for families since the election. A further 47 per cent say ministers’ policies have not made any difference, while 22 per cent say the situation has worsened. Hmm, so, how was this found out? In

The anti-obesity industry is now so massive that it has to keep inventing health crises to justify its existence.

Obesity, poor diet and excessive drinking are still causing unacceptable levels of ill health in Scotland, its chief medical officer warns.

With European children getting heavier and less active, health experts say policymakers should draw a lesson from anti-tobacco campaigns and consider heavier taxation schemes to combat teenage fat. More »

A schoolchild aged five has become one of the youngest children in Britain to be taken into care for obesity reasons, it has emerged.

Strikes, Olympic boycotts and obesity league tables — it's a dreary set of newspaper front covers this morning. But none of them are quite so dreary as the Telegraph's, which speaks of ‘The return of recession’. According to their story, the OECD has told ministers that its latest set of forecasts, released on Monday, will have the UK economy shrinking for the first six...

A panel of advisers on tackling obesity has been disbanded over claims the Government was too sympathetic to the food and drink industry.

Experts have accused the government of being too concerned about not hurting the food industry in its obesity crackdown