From Peter Bickerton, South Wootton, Norfolk, UK
This latest attempt to link creativity with health, as discussed in “Want to stay healthy? Get creative”, once again ignores the common denominator of all the other likely links, from exercise to the consumption of fermented foods: the richer you are, the more likely you are to engage in one or more of these healthy activities. An alternative, or complementary, hypothesis may simply be that those with the least to worry about, and the most time to spend exercising, eating healthily and engaging in activities other than daily drudgery, are the healthiest and longest-lived (31 January, p 15).
