Compulsory obesity tests

Scottish politicians want to introduce obesity tests for all five year-olds;

Ministers claim that in order to shed Scotland's tag as the sick man of Europe, they need to intrude ever further into children's personal health and the private lives of families.

But the drastic measures were attacked last night as the latest attempt to dictate to parents how they should bring up their children.

Doubtless there are obesity obsessionists here who would leap at such an idea.