BBC Radio Five Live were crusading again last week, their plan of campaign once more heavily reliant upon taking a lazy sound-bite and stimulating a h...

An Oxford Dictionary definition of the word "abuse" is to "use or treat in such a way as to cause damage or harm." There is no mistaking the stark facts: childhood obesity leads to horrors such as various cancers, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, depression and many more.

Crawling, walking, catching, running, riding a bike and learning to swim - all essential activities to learn for a child. But cooking? It might not sound like a core skill but an increasing amount of evidence points to the fact that learning to cook has numerous benefits for children.

It is a well-known fact that fast food is bad for you. Relentless campaigning by the government's public health watchdog reminds us of this continually. Newly implemented traffic light food labelling now draws attention to fat, salt, sugar and calorie content in pre-packed food. So, where does fried chicken fall in the artery-clogging spectrum of fast food options?

We give companies the ability to advertise harmful foods to children in a misleading way. We make healthier food more expensive and harder to come by. We create living environments not conducive to active lives. We then chastise the obese for not exercising their personal choice as if they made that choice in a vacuum.

On Monday a report called 'Measuring Up' was released by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges which outlined 10 suggestions to the government to help...

Middle-class children are more likely to be obese than those from poor families, researchers revealed on Tuesday. The findings undermine the long-h...

Perhaps a unique way of getting at the answer to this question - what our true consumption desires are - is to examine what people choose to eat for their last meal. What would you choose to eat if all concerns over your body image, cholesterol and mortality were removed completely?

It is never too early to begin teaching healthy lifestyle habits to our youngsters. Just like bathing and tooth brushing, these positive habits are foundational life skills.

A fizzy drink that promises children one of their five-a-day portions of fruit and vegetables, will go on sale in McDonald's from next week. New dr...

Jamie Oliver had a splash in the Guardian this week bemoaning the quality of our children's diets. "Tell me," he says in an interview, "Tell me, Mr Gove, Mr Lansley [the health secretary], two out of five kids are obese, how you plan to change that?"

Taking pizza to places it has never been before (and probably shouldn't go), Pizza Hut has unveiled its latest offering – namely a pie with a crust ...

More than two-thirds of parents admit to feeding their children junk food as a ‘reward’ for good behaviour, a recent study has discovered. Acco...

A (large) spoonful of sugar can prove fatal, a leading doctor in the US has warned, as it can have the same effect on the body as poison when eaten in...

On Monday at the Parliamentary Inquiry into the Causes and Consequences of Body Image Anxiety in the UK, the media were on the stand. Hardly anyone from the media would give evidence - mainly because editors and publishers know the causes and consequences of body image anxiety and no one wants to admit their part in it.

A fry-up which weighs the same as a baby has been aptly named the Kidz Breakfast. Tipping the scales at 9lbs, this 6,000 calorie fry-up costs £15 ...

A child from Manchester has been taken into care for being obese. The 5-year-old, the youngest child to be taken from its parents due to obesity ...