Carlisle man tells how obesity almost led him to commit suicide

A Carlisle man has written of how he was driven to the brink of suicide by childhood obesity ? and how he battled to overcome it

At 15 years old, Jonathan Scott, now 23, from Houghton, weighed more than 19 stone. Tormented and bullied at school, it wasn?t until he reached rock bottom that he gathered the strength to turn his life around. Click here for full article.