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Sugar, salt and fat are hard to resist. Governments around the world have tried convincing people to eat healthily, without much success. Obesity rates have kept rising, including in children. Our article explains how restrictions on the sale and marketing of junk food can turn the tide on obesity.
One of The Economist’s most-read stories this week is about white Zimbabweans returning to farming 25 years after Robert Mugabe, a liberation-hero-turned-dictator, dispatched thugs to grab mostly white-owned farms. Our correspondent visited Mvurwi, a town 100km north of Harare, to meet a new generation of “farming progeny”. | 
