Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives: One Year On

This was the big anti-obesity drive launched in January last year? Yes. Gordon Brown announced he wanted England to become the first major nation to "reverse the rising tide of obesity". The initial focus has been on children, with the government announcing that by 2020 it wants to reduce childhood obesity to 2000 levels.

So the publication, Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives: One Year On, is about what's been achieved so far? And about what they are going to do next. One of the higher-profile activities has been the Change4Life campaign in the early part of this year, which targeted parents of younger children to highlight the links between poor diet, sedentary lifestyles and preventable diseases. In the coming year, this is going to be extended both to "very young" children and to at-risk groups of adults. The National Child Measurement Programme has been producing more data and raising awareness. Now that programme will be looking at how it can share individual results, in particular how results can be given to health professionals for "more proactive follow up".