My five a day: writing poetry 1
Five a day! This has been a long-running campaign to encourage people to eat more fruit and vegetables. Less familiar, but perhaps more significantly, this health drive was followed up four years ago with the mental health campaign proposed and promoted by Andy Gibson: mindapple (mīnd-ăp-´əl) • n. a simple day-to-day activity that is good for the mind The idea was once again featured in The Guardian earlier last year. It is difficult to quantify how much depression and mental health really costs the country, as there are so many ways to measure what it is, and quantifying its perceived impact is open to a variety of competing methodologies. But one estimate suggests that the cost in Britain alone may be more than $100 billion every year. That means that worldwide cost could be meausured in trillions of dollars. My recently adopted mind activity is to write a daily poem . In case this sounds elitist or exclusively literary, let me just be clear that my working