Strike a balance

This week: Daniel Bedingfield
  • The Guardian,
I'd quit rather than push myself over the edge. My parents are counsellors and I've seen people have breakdowns: it wrecks relationships and makes you unproductive. I try to have eight days off a month.

I'm on an Atkins-type diet of no rice, bread, potatoes or pasta; I get my fibre from vegetables and vitamins from smoothies. I laugh when people say the Atkins diet made them dehydrated: how do you get dehydrated when you can drink water?

I like to drink, but hate to get drunk. I was a hyperactive kid and spent years getting control, so I'm not going to throw it away by getting drunk. I take Ambrotose, an amazing US drug that contains the eight sugars our bodies need; our normal diet contains only three.

I read a lot of scriptures. I like Jewish and Hebrew scriptures. Basically, though, everyone knows they're fired if I don't get enough rest!

· Daniel Bedingfield's new single, Friday, is out now on Polydor.

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