"One of the most uncomfortable beings on earth is a Dyspeptic. To most other invalids there is some hope of a change It will neither kill the patient nor depart from him. Hitherto, it has been more hopeless than a sentence of imprisonment for life." --J.C. Eno, A Treatise on the Stomach and its Trials 1865.
For a number of people, the winter holidays coincide with family meals of increased size and frequency, an unaccustomed embarrassment of riches. (I recall family dinners of my youth wherein an entire table had been commandeered only for desserts, for instance.) But as...
