Sharon finds diet advice hard to swallow

ISRAELI Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is renowned for his steel will, but there is one thing that just might be stronger than “the Bulldozer” - his appetite.

The very overweight 77-year-old was released from the hospital yesterday, two days after suffering a mild stroke, and is under doctors’ orders to go on a diet, but aides said he has not yet decided whether to fight his love of all things meaty.

Mr Sharon’s illness raised questions about his health as he prepared to run for a third term in office as head of his new Kadima party. Mr Sharon brushed off those concerns as he left Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital.