Police investigating Italian 'macrobiotic guru' over wife's death

Mario Pianesi is suspected of killing first wife by putting her on extreme form of ‘Ma-Pi’ diet

Italian police have opened a new investigation into Mario Pianesi, an influential businessman celebrated as a guru of macrobiotic food, over allegations he may have killed his first wife by putting her on an extreme form of his “Ma-Pi” diet.

Gabriella Monti died in 2001, two months after being diagnosed with acute hepatitis caused by aflatoxins, a fungal poison sometimes found in grain or nuts. Monti had had a stroke in 1997, after which she was cared for at home by her husband.

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