REVIEW OF CAROL CRAIG’S THE TEARS THAT MADE THE CLYDE (ARGYLL PUBLISHING £8.99)

Glasgow, Scotland’s largest city is a health promotion and social care professional’s nightmare. In spite of hundreds of millions of pounds spent on programmes and a plethora of initiatives targeted at poor health and lifestyle, the city stubbornly remains at the bottom of the table when it comes to bad health, atrocious diet, dreadful levels […]

MESSY COMPROMISES

Imagine a man aged over 50 who is grossly overweight and eating a salt and vinegar saturated fried take-away fish supper, washed down with a sugary, high calorie soft drink. Having vociferously consumed the fish supper our man proceeds to open a can of strong lager and accompanies this by lighting up one of 60 […]