Clyde Anderson has a thick, raised scar, three centimetres wide, that runs down the centre of his chest where his ribcage was cut open.
In 2020, surgeons extracted veins from Anderson’s leg and grafted them to his heart in a quadruple bypass. His original coronary arteries had become so clogged with fat that he had had a heart attack.
“I was truck-driving and eating when I could, eating fast food,” says Anderson, 54. At the time, he weighed around 19 stone (120kg). “Then my health checked up on me.”
