Six diet tips from our Science pages

THIS newspaper prides itself on its readers' insatiable craving for accurate reporting and trenchant analysis. However, Babbage will concede that man cannot subsist on such an ethereal diet for long. And even if he could, sticking to it would doubtless prove nigh on impossible around this time of year, where enticing aromas of traditional Christmas fare waft hither and thither in homes all over the Western world whetting the less rarefied sort of appetite.

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