More than half of the adult population within the European Union, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland are overweight or obese according to a new health study conducted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).  Read the full story

Broadening waistlines and expanding bellies among Swedish women can be blamed on a lack of sleep, according to new research. Read the full story

Fatty foods and candy could soon be swelling the coffers of the Danish state by up to DKK 1.5 billion per year with the introduction of an ‘unhealthy food tax’ at the beginning of 2010. Read the full story

The Asbru Innovation Centre – the knowledge and entrepreneurial community being formed at the old NATO airbase next to Iceland’s Keflavik International Airport – will host a new international health services centre. That is the goal of a new Term Sheet jointly signed recently by the Keflavik Airport Development Corporation (Kadeco) and Iceland Health. Read the full story

An obese inmate at the southern Swedish prison of Karlskrona has submitted an official request for monetary damages because the prison authorities were not able to give him suitable clothing to fit his larger-than-average body. Read the full story