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A diet high in added sugar, impossible to escape in processed foods, has been linked to diabetes, heart disease and possibly cancer

There's a delectable scene in Andri(C) Aciman's latest novel Find Me where three characters sit down to lunch. They have just purchased fresh fish and scallops from the market, plus spinach and wine. On a balcony overlooking Rome, the woman "split open the branzini she had broiled in a cast-iron frying pan, removed their bones, and on a different plate came the spinach and old puntarelle, over which, once we were seated, she sprinkled oil and freshly grated parmesan".

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