Francis Brennan recommends the alternative approach to diabetes

The Faye Dunaway Diet might not be a recognised eating plan, but the actress’s eating habits played a role in helping the country’s favourite hotelier Francis Brennan to get his diabetes under control writes Clodagh Finn. 

He recalls that the star of Chinatown and Bonnie and Clyde once said the secret to good health was to eat less. She said that every time she went into a restaurant, she divided what she was given in two and ate just half of it.

In fact, she has been known to bring a weighing scales to weigh whatever she is served.