Clean-living star Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle choice is a desperate attempt to beat the cancer "curse" that has gripped her family. The star has already lost five close family members to the disease, including her father Bruce, and fears she's also at great risk from terminal illness.

As a result, she's enforced a strict vegetarian diet on her young family with Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, and hopes the healthy eating will ward off illness.

Paltrow says, "Cancer has been the curse of my family. I am challenging these evil genes by natural means. I am convinced that by eating biological foods it is possible to avoid the growth of tumors. I began this crusade soon after my father's death. Since then the fight against tumors has been my mission."

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