Give Your Diet a Health Kick ; When Dr Servan-Schreiber Heard He Had Beaten Cancer, He Set Out Tofind Anything He Could Take to Prevent a Relapse. And When He Found Out Achange of Diet Could Make a Difference, He Decided to Share His Knowledge

FOR lunch, and ideally dinner, you're going to have mostly vegetables, some olive oil, garlic, herbs and spices and possibly a little meat or eggs for flavour.

This is not a one-off menu but your menu for life.

It may not sound the most exciting diet but it could save your life, according to a new book, by Dr David Servan-Schreiber, who calls it the anti-cancer plate.

Currently a best-seller in France, Anticancer: A New Way of Life is the book David wishes he had when he became ill.

Diagnosed with a brain tumour 15 years ago, he thought he had beaten the cancer until eight years ago, when he had a relapse.

After two successful operations and 13 bouts of chemotherapy, he asked his doctor what he could do to prevent another relapse.