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Constitution type

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Constitution type or body type refer to a number of classification systems or typology systems used to empirically or theoretically classify the body shape of a human individual. [1]

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Ayurveda

Ayurveda is a system of medicine with historical roots in the Indian subcontinent.

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Bertil Lundman

Bertil J. Lundman (September 28, 1899, Malmö – November 5, 1993) was a Swedish anthropologist.

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Body shape

Human body shape is a complex phenomenon with sophisticated detail and function.

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Elliot Abravanel

Elliot D. Abravanel is an American physician and diet counselor, who developed the Body Type system for weight loss and overall wellness.

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Ernst Kretschmer

Ernst Kretschmer (8 October 18888 February 1964) was a German psychiatrist who researched the human constitution and established a typology.

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Exercise

Exercise is any bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health and wellness.

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Female body shape

Female body shape or female figure is the cumulative product of a woman's skeletal structure and the quantity and distribution of muscle and fat on the body.

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Habitus

Habitus may refer to.

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Medicine

Medicine is the science and practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.

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Nutrition

Nutrition is the science that interprets the interaction of nutrients and other substances in food in relation to maintenance, growth, reproduction, health and disease of an organism.

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Paul Carus

Paul Carus (18 July 1852 – 11 February 1919) was a German-American author, editor, a student of comparative religion, from Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas, edited by Philip P. Wiener (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1973–74).

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Phrenology

Phrenology is a pseudomedicine primarily focused on measurements of the human skull, based on the concept that the brain is the organ of the mind, and that certain brain areas have localized, specific functions or modules.

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Physiognomy

Physiognomy (from the Greek φύσις physis meaning "nature" and gnomon meaning "judge" or "interpreter") is the assessment of character or personality from a person's outer appearance, especially the face often linked to racial and sexual stereotyping.

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Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy is the use of psychological methods, particularly when based on regular personal interaction, to help a person change behavior and overcome problems in desired ways.

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Sasang constitutional medicine

The Sasang constitutional medicine (Hangul: 사상의학. Hanja: 四象醫學) or Sasang typology is a typological constitution medicine of Traditional Korean medicine.

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Somatotype and constitutional psychology

Somatotype is a taxonomy developed in the 1940s by American psychologist William Herbert Sheldon to categorize the human physique according to the relative contribution of three fundamental elements which he termed "somatotypes".

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William Herbert Sheldon

William Herbert Sheldon, Jr. (November 19, 1898 – September 17, 1977) was an American psychologist and numismatist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_type

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