One of the most obvious symptoms of a serious flu is that you lose your appetite

According to Peaches Geldof the reason why she has lost so much weight recently is because she contracted bird flu! She said that she had lost one and a half stone because of the virus and that she was not avoiding food.

Peaches who is a TV presenter for the ITV program OMG has been recently photographed on the town looking much slimmer than she did earlier this year which have prompted speculations about her diet. 

Hmmm, we are not quite sure if Peaches has got it right about having had the deadly bird flu virus because if that was the case she would be one of the very few people ever to have contracted it in UK.  The deadly H5N1 bird flu virus often kills and usually requires hospitalization and immediate medical care.  It is possible that she had a milder version of a bird flu variant or maybe swine flu but not the H5N1 virus.

One of the most obvious symptoms of a serious flu is that you lose your appetite.  If you have a cold you will probably keep on eating as normal but a severe flu virus leaves you not wanting to eat anything.

If you are losing weight getting an influenza virus can give you a bit of a push in the right direction but obviously it should not be thought of as a serious weight loss tactic. If you are ill with an influenza virus you should try and eat lots of healthy food to speed up your recovery.

Peaches is never out of the news and complains that no matter what she does the tabloids make a big fuss about it. She said she is bored of all of the news articles about her so called dramatic weight loss and wishes that the press would leave her alone. Recently The Sun claimed that she had joined in a 5 people sex orgy prompting an angry response from her.