For a wider range of current evidence, please visit the National Library for Public Health obesity collection.

• Cochrane review: Interventions for preventing obesity in children (2011)

• EPPI review: Childhood obesity and educational attainment: a systematic review (2011)

• The clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of long-term weight management schemes for adults: a systematic review (2011)

• Maternal obesity in the UK: findings from a national project (2010)

• Incentives to improve smoking, physical activity, dietary and weight management behaviours: a scoping review of the research evidence (2010)

• A systematic map of the research on the relationship between obesity and sedentary behaviour in young people (2010)

• Preventing Overweight and Obesity in Scotland: A Route Map Towards Healthy Weight (2010)

• Fair Society, Healthy Lives: Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England Post 2010 (2010)

• Tackling obesity through the Healthy Child Programme: a framework for action (2010)

• Cochrane review: Interventions to change the behaviour of health professionals and the organisation of care to promote weight reduction in overweight and obese people (2010)

• The clinical effectiveness and costeffectiveness of bariatric (weight loss) surgery for obesity: a systematic review and economic evaluation (2009)

• Children’s views about obesity, body size, shape and weight (2009)

• Systematic review of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of weight management schemes for the under fives: a short report (2009)

• British Heart Foundation (BHF) report: Couch Kids: the nation’s future… (2009)

• Cochrane review: Interventions for treating obesity in children (2009)

• Cochrane review: Low glycaemic index or low glycaemic load diets for overweight and obesity (2009)

• Cochrane review: Exercise for overweight or obesity (2009)

• Cochrane review: Psychological interventions for overweight or obesity (2009)

• Cochrane review: Interventions for preventing obesity in children (2009)

• Cochrane review: Surgery for morbid obesity (2009)

• Cochrane review: Long-term pharmacotherapy for obesity and overweight (2009)

• Cochrane review: Intragastric balloon for obesity (2009)

• Cochrane review: School-based physical activity programs for promoting physical activity and fitness in children and adolescents aged 6-18 (2009)

• Cochrane review: Chitosan for overweight or obesity (2008)

• The changing social patterning of obesity: An analysis to inform practice and policy development (2008)

• Social and environmental interventions to reduce childhood obesity: a systematic map of reviews (2008)

• Schemes to promote healthy weight among obese and overweight children in England (2008)

• Cochrane review: Diet or exercise, or both, for weight reduction in women after childbirth (2008)

• Obesity and socio-economic groups in Europe: Evidence review and implications for action (2007)

• The Foresight project: Tackling Obesities: Future Choices (2007)