It’s the season to be jolly – and to forget one’s diet. Not only because the food is so tempting it’s a pain to ignore it, but also because family reunions are all about sharing – and to refuse to partake of a feast that took Mom and Grandma days to prepare is to risk being disinherited and disowned by the clan.
It has often been the inevitable side effect of industrialization and urbanization: Where humans create habitation for their own species,...
