FINDING YOUR BODY TYPE

Your body type is basically a description of your body's style of functioning, as looked from the angle of your strongest and most active gland. Men and women are divided into body types differently: Men have three body types, the adrenal type, thyroid type, and pituitary type. Women have four types: the same adrenal, thyroid, and pituitary types, and a fourth, the gonadal type. Since only women are gonadal types, the dominant gland of the G-type is the female sex gland, the ovaries. In men, the sex glands are the testes but they do not produce a separate body type .Instead, they work in concert with the adrenal glands, so that a man who is an adrenal type could be called an adrenal /gonadal type. Each of the types has characteristics that are easy to pick out. Some of the easiest to use are body shape, location of any extra weight, food preferences, and energy ''highs and lows'' throughout the day. Just to give you an idea how it works, here are some quick characteristics of each body type: it is called Personal Metabolic Inventory(PMI) a self-test to find your own body type. If you are tall, long-limbed, and fine-boned, put on weight in a, jelly roll, or midriff bulge, love starches and sweets, and tend to work in very intense spurts followed by periods of exhaustion, you are probably a thyroid type. Suppose you are solid and muscular, put on a 'beer belly', love meat and potatoes, and can work all day on a few hours' sleep at night. You're probably an adrenal type. Say you have a child's body and a slightly big head, put on 'baby fat' all over your body , love dairy products and fruit, and tend to spend more time thinking about work than working , If so, you're probably a pituitary type. Finally, if you're a woman who is much smaller above the waist than below, who puts on every extra pound in the rear end, loves creamy and spicy food, and has calm, steady energy throught out the day, you're probably a gonadal type. NEXT: The Reality Of The Body Type