Even by 1800s standards, Jim Pud Galvin didn't have the ideal body to be a pitcher.
More than two out of three Americans are overweight, averaging 23 pounds heavier than the ideal body weight.
Both were sick, injured and less than half their ideal body weight.
While the idea of what constitutes the ideal body shape is changing in Sudan, the traditional preference for women to have thick legs remains.
Still, you knew that being morbidly obese (yes, that's how you describe people who are 100 pounds or more over their ideal body weight) would be something that would ultimately kill you, probably as a relatively young man.
Moreover, the researchers were keen to emphasise how fluctuating environmental conditions could alter the popular perception of an "ideal" body size.
Pear-shaped women with big hips and thighs were at higher risk of dangerous clots, even if they had an "ideal" body weight.
For example, the intersection of western asana practice with the fashion world and the ideal of the perfect thin body, might reinforce unhealthy choices that have little to do with personal evolution.
Smokeless nicotine, ingested via a skin patch, is less than ideal because its effects on the body are too broad to treat diseases of the central nervous system such as Alzheimer's.
One of the earliest known markers of cancer are antibodies produced by the body itself, rendering them ideal candidates for routine non-invasive screens.
In Los Angeles, time has a particular poignancy, since the body can never be young enough to satisfy an unsustainable ideal.
Yet even as he pursued that arid ideal, he was daily drawing from life, and discovering the human body in ever more intimate detail.
We just weren't the people being interviewed, and that whole ideal that African-American women and women of color have a healthier body image was pushed for so long with no one coming back to ask us.
Often these patients have surgery to transform bits of their bowel into bladder, but this is less than ideal since the bowel's job is to absorb fluid into the body, whereas the bladder's is to store it away before expulsion.
Coco rejected that ideal, opting to build a style based solely on herself, liberating the female body from the constricting style of the time.
"Maybe what is interesting about my Body for Life picture is that in terms of fitness I have come close to the ideal of what people imagine a male physique should look like while at the same time missing one fourth of the limbs that you are supposed to have, " says Sundquist.
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