Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives: A Cross-Government Strategy For England, 28 January 2008 Produced by COI for the Department of Health and the Department for Children, Schools and Families the report focuses in five main policy areas – to promote children’s health; to promote healthy food; to build physical activity into our lives; to support health at work and provide incentives more widely to promote health; and to provide effective treatment and support when people become overweight or obese.

Forecasting Obesity to 2010, Joint Health Surveys Unit National Centre for Social Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Royal Free and University College Medical School, 2006 The focus of this report is to forecast what levels of obesity in England may be in 2010 if current trends in obesity prevalence continue unchanged.  The report is split into three main sections.  Section 2 looks at the current picture of overweight and obesity prevalence among children and adults, using data from the Health Survey for England 2003 (HSE 2003).  The results present both the prevalence of obesity among the population and also the estimated number of people within the population who are obese.  Section 3 uses trend data from HSE to project discernible trends forward to 2010 and analyses these in relation to mid-population estimates for 2010 to forecast the number and proportion of the population predicted to be obese and overweight.  Section 4 looks at the estimated number and proportion of adults and children who may be obese in 2010 within different socio-demographic groups.