Every now and then the Ukmedix newsroom comes across a fad diet that has its 15 minutes of fame and then swiftly dissapears again into the unknown. Recently we reported on the Maple Syrup diet that Beyonce Knowles claimed she went on to lose weight for a film in which she had to play a 16 year old girl. In ten days she shed the required pounds did the filming and then reported that she was busy putting all the weight back on again.

Now the former Destiny's Child band member and singer says that she loves eating much more than shopping which is refreshingly honest and frank for a woman to admit. Given the choice of a holiday or eating Beyonce said that she would rather stay at home and eat something good.

Celebrities get alot of flack for portraying perfect bodies that have obviously been put through extreme dieting and some people say that this gives a bad example to teenagers about eating habits. One of the reasons we like Beyonce in the Ukmedix newsroom (as well as for being beautiful) is that she has a healthy attitude to her weight and her figure. She is a curvy woman and she is not ashamed of that and she likes to eat and more importantly she wants to be healthy.

Different people have different body shapes and some are luckier than others. If you are a curvy woman you will probably look best being curvy and starving yourself so that you can be as thin as other women who are naturally skin and bone will not be good for your health.

Ukmedix believes that you should set yourself realistic weight targets that don't involve starvation diets and excessive exercise and that you should learn to be comfortable with your weight and body image.