A typical diet for him would be high in protein and low in fat, with plenty of green vegetables.

The typical diet programme leads to a loss of only around 5 per cent, the company's founders say.

The snake's typical diet consists of earthworms, slugs, and small amphibians, including the larvae of salamanders.

Like methanol, the typical diet will lead to ingestion of significantly higher amounts of phenylalanine than would be expected from aspartame consumption.

But when he returned to a more typical diet - albeit more moderate than he had previously indulged - he regained weight and his health once again deteriorated.