A description of any kind of human body shape using general body descriptors: slim, fat, tall, petite, wide-shouldered, pear shaped, etc.
A system devised by William Sheldon classifying humans into three different body types, (ectomorphic, endomorphic, and mesomorphic) sometimes used in modern weight training and exercise; see somatotype
A classification system developed by Elliot Abravanel in the 1970s and 1980s that classifies an individual based on his or her glandular metabolism.
Field Marshal William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim (1897 – 1970), British military commander and 13th Governor-General of Australia. ... Obesity is a condition in which the natural energy reserve, stored in the fatty tissue of humans and other mammals, is increased to a point where it is associated with certain health conditions or increased mortality. ... :For the wikimarkup <small>, wiki markup. ... A European Pear. ... William Herbert Sheldon (November 19, 1898 – September 17, 1977) was an American psychologist and numismatist. ... The three somatotypes—endomorphic, mesomorphic, and ectomorphic—are basic classifications of animal body types according to the prominence of different basic tissues types, roughly: digestive, muscular, and nervous tissues. ... Elliot D. Abravanel is an American physician and diet counselor, who developed the Body Type system for weight loss and overall wellness. ... Shirodhara, one of the techniques of Ayurveda Ayurveda (Devanagari: ) or Ayurvedic medicine is an ancient system of health care that is native to the Indian subcontinent. ...
In order to determine your bodytype, one needs to look back at your adolescent years to determine which category your bodytype you possessed before changes due to age and lifestyle transformed you into what you are today.
One of the pitfalls with this bodytype is that the individual can become complacent by missing to many workouts or thinking that they can get away from eating a healthy diet and have an extra desert without doing any harm.
The idea is to accept the bodytype you are and then follow a plan of action to eat and train for that bodytype.
Bodytypes and bodytyping: glandular bodytypes, adrenal types, somatotypes, and Eastern bodytypes: their scientific basis, relevance for holistic medicine, and their possible relationship to perception, depressive realism, and constitutional diseases such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and elevated cortisol levels.
While bodytyping became more fragmented and holistic forms of bodytyping ceased to be recognised, eventually the psychological types of Jung were developed (13,14).
Knowledge of bodytyping therefore, by enabling the holistic practitioner to readily identify and understand deviations from a normal or balanced constitution, permits a more cause based treatment strategy to be adopted by intervening at the most fundamental constitutional level of the disease process.
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