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White bread is not a very wholesome food for humans: turns them stupid. A silly person offers bread to ducks too in winter, and the ducks believe in it, wait for the next helping, and become likewise silly. If a mallard has been eating bread the whole winter, its intestines will be like Victoria Beckham’s middle finger. But what is there to find for a duck besides bread - in all the few ice-free patches of water all the mud has been sifted through and through. Deeper in the mud are frogs. That a mallard would eat big frogs sounds as incredible as that Tarja Halonen could be a sex symbol. But what to do in an emergency, a duck suffering from coeliac disease would eat even pork and hen eggs now. In order to get hold of frogs the dabbling, or swimming, duck has to turn into a diving duck. Swallowing the frog takes some quarter of an hour, because the wretched frog digs its heels in and struggles. To mitigate the protein famine two frogs a day must be swallowed. If a human would accomplish something comparable he must swallow two young cats per day, alive.