Diet guru Henri Chenot dies. Berlusconi, Maradona and Naomi Campbell among his guests- Corriere.it

vain? Vanity is usually a mask that hides problems, he answered calmly. The secret of well-being is to take an interest in others, never look too much at the navel. So was Henri Chenot. A gruff, sweet-eyed man who never lost the wheel. Tell the truth by looking people directly in the eye. He cured all the powerful, but with the same passion he made himself available to those who asked him for help, to lose weight, of course, or to cure some ailment, because Henri was self-taught, but he had really studied all those books that were neatly packed. dark walnut shelves in his study. Henri Chenot died in Lugano at the age of 77 after a long illness.

From Lucio Dalla to Maradona

He had developed the detox diet, which was known throughout the world as the Chenot method.

. In his Hotel Palace in Merano, the Frenchman of Catalan origin welcomed many celebrities from the world of entertainment and sports, but also from politics, such as Giulio Andreotti, Luciano Pavarotti, Naomi Campbell, Flavio Briatore, Zinedine Zidane, Cristiano Ronaldo, Silvio Berlusconi, Flavio Briatore, Renzo Rosso, Monica Bellucci, Irina Shayk, Francesco Totti with Ilary. Lucio Dalla was also entrusted to Chenot’s care, as was Diego Maradona, who in 2009 during a treatment stay in Merano had to hand over his earrings to the Guardia di Finanza due to a series of riots with the Italian tax authorities. And then many oligarchs and new rich Russians, Arab princesses. Chenot had recently said goodbye to Merano for the transfer to Switzerland, to Weggis, on the shores of Lake Lucerne, for a new adventure, always supported by his beloved wife Dominique.

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Chenot had built his fortune in South Tyrol, first in Villa Edén and then in the Palace Hotel, applying a particular method to rebalance the physiology of the organism, based on Bionthology (the science of life), a concept he invented himself and linked to the idea that certain lifestyle choices cause accumulation of toxins which in turn can trigger degenerative diseases.