Christmas poisons.
Poison isn’t confined to Agatha Christie TV specials: many Christmas favourites harbour deadly secrets Paracelsus , a sixteenth century German Swiss philosopher wrote, “The dose makes the poison”; in essence, too much is too much. It’s one of those things that needed saying to make people think about it properly. Just __________ much of something is too much? And, in Christmas, is there anything we _____________ worry about? Obviously, overeating isn’t healthy in the first place, but who can resist that extra mince pie or the last roast potato? As the pile of empty sweet _______________ grew beside me, I started to worry. So, I sat down to have a think about Paracelsus and some of the more toxic ____________ available to us at Christmas . The most toxic thing you might eat this Christmas is cyanide , in marzipan. Yes, it’s true, marzipan contains a source of cyanide, the same _______________you hear about in spy’s suicide pills and the pages of murder my...