The opening of a new retail outlet, half a mile from my former school, saw customers snaking round the building and a week of road chaos as motorists queued for up to an hour.
This was no fashion store or a supermarket but a Krispy Kreme drive-thru doughnut store. No surprise then that Scotland has the developed world’s second highest (after the USA) obesity rates.
Health and wellbeing is high on Scotland’s educational agenda, yet our poor health is beyond a quick curricular fix.
Phil Hanlon, professor of public health at Glasgow University, and Sandra Carlisle, have painted the bigger picture of Scotland’s health. After Now: What next for a healthy Scotland? (Argyll Publishing) is the second in Postcards from Scotland, challenging short books analysing big social issues.
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