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Sounds like a noodle virtue to me, or at least it uses the same basic idea for humour.
But if you want to keep in the spirit of EY's dementors, the article writer does some wacky reasoning to end up roughly at the virtue of dietary restriction.
Terry Pratchett's noodle implements generally make sense if you work them out. I doubt this is any different.