Letters to parents warning that their children are overweight will be toned down, after complaints that the wording was too upsetting.

Completing a trilogy begun with Love and continued in Faith, this is the gentlest and most amenable of Ulrich Seidl's dramas of female sexuality. Thirteen-year-old Melanie (Melanie Lenz) is spending the summer at an Austrian diet camp where "discipline" is the watchword for the tubby teen inmates.

The problem is that it won't just be used by disabled people. It will also be used by fat people who cannot be bothered to jog. And that bothers me.

Some minorities could miss out on treatment for weight-related conditions such as diabetes

It may be cheap, but getting your parents to look after your children may be storing up trouble, Roger Dobson discovers

Mark Wallace asked if I could add pictures to my Banned List of clichés, and nominated the first here. Lloyd Bracey, who teaches TV journalists, persuaded me to ban reporters referencing stormy waters, for example, over footage of the sea. But this is different. This is about reaching for the most obvious image with which to illustrate an abstract subject.

All major UK supermarkets have already signed up to the voluntary food labelling scheme

Five-year-old dog weighs more than the average UK woman

Cancer Research figures show oesophageal cancer has doubled in the last 30 years

New mortality data highlights serious divisions across England but is intended to help councils improve public health

Malnutrition now costs the world $3.5 trillion (£2.3 trn) – or $500 for every person– in healthcare and lost productivity, the United Nations has warned.

Restaurant owners in Salford hit out over proposals to restrict sale of hot food to children

We shouldn't ask women to change the way they dress so as to safeguard themselves, just as children shouldn't have to lose weight so as not to attract bullies

Former Paralympian says many disabled children still 'sent to the library' during school PE lessons