Smaller sizes of soft drinks, calorie information on restaurant menus, and advertising campaigns that spend more on low sugar drinks than full sugar ones were called for yesterday by Dawn Primarolo, the public health minister. She said that fast food chains and theme parks should offer healthy eating choices as the default option, while the restriction on advertising of sweets and sugary foods during children's TV programmes needed to be extended to cinema, magazines and the internet. Nicholas Timmins



