GOING back to my primary school years in the 1940s, I recall some pupils who were on the skinny side but none in a class of more than 30 who would be classed as overweight or obese but, with an increasing number of circumferentially challenged adults, it is hardly surprising that around one in five children are in the same predicament (“The long, hard battle to tackle obesity”, Herald View, December 13 ).

The answer must lie in education, legislation and getting the public and supermarkets onside.

While I do not subscribe to the derogatory term “snowflake generation” applied to young adults of the 2010s and I accept that some would find “fat” and “too fat” on the harsh side, “the snowball class” for those who are at school is perhaps apposite.

R Russell Smith,

96 Milton Road,

Kilbirnie.