yoga gossip

November 27, 2001

(STAR) GWYNETH PALTROW used to drink like a fish,

but now she gets high on yoga! "I drank vodka

tonics all the time," Gwyneth, 26, admits. "But I found

that my kidneys got really hard because of

it." She also noticed that it affected her liver and her

ability to do the difficult moves her yoga instructor

requires. These days, the healthy-living blonde, who dons a fat

suit to play an obese woman in Shallow Hal, gets up at

4 a.m. and relaxes with daily two-hour morning yoga

sessions. "I never skip unless I'm sick, which I never am,"

she brags. She also shuns caffeine, wheat,

dairy, sugar and meat as part of a macrobiotic

diet. "Macrobiotics is not about keeping thin," she tells Talk

magazine. "It's about eating healthy and clean. Although I have

to say that as I get into my later 20s I can't eat

whatever I want anymore! I'm like: ‘What happened to my

metabolism?" But she still allows herself an occasional

drink. "I'm allowed to drink fermented alcohol once in a

while," she says. "So I drink wine, sake and

beer. "And at a wedding or something, I'll have a

cosmopolitan, but maybe once a year. Rarely. Very rarely."

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