The Atkins diet is back, but this time with the bread and pasta. US weight loss experts Dr Stuart Trager and Collette Heimowitz have reinvented the diet fad to include more carbohydrates and we’ve no doubt celebs will jump back on the wagon without a backward glance. We round up the latest slimming solutions favoured by celebrities.

In between saluting the sun and being ‘cupped’, new age celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow tuck in to miso soup and mung beans on the much publicised Macrobiotic diet. Also popular with fashion followers Madonna, Katie Holmes, Uma Thurman, Courtney Love and Sting, Macrobiotic eating is all about chowing on raw, unprocessed foods.