[19] also found significantly higher
endomorphic and significantly lower mesomorphic scores in inactive individuals, while they found that athletes were mesomorphic ectomorph.
While body-fatness (i.e.,
endomorphic component of the body-built) is not likely to be an important factor with regard to injuries of other regions, the standard ballet pointe technique (Photo 1) defines the importance of the
endomorphic body-built in ankle injuries.
To determine whether mass media play a role in the tendency to derogate non-ideal bodies, one must examine the types of men that are over- and underrepresented in film and the ways in which ectomorphic, mesomorphic, and
endomorphic characters are portrayed.
The tool portrayed male images from ectomorphic bodies to
endomorphic bodies.
It would be difficult for an athlete with those inherited characteristics (
endomorphic) to achieve a significant decrease in weight.
O1 would include a genetic predisposition and prenatal exposure to conditions that lead to an
endomorphic physique.
We do know that the preference in society is toward mesomorphic (muscular) males, and there is an aversion toward
endomorphic (fat) and ectomorphic (thin) males (Weinke, 1998).
Some categorize body type as "ectomorphic (thin),
endomorphic (heavy) or mesomorphic (muscular)." (78) Others provide hand-writing samples from donors.
These five factors are male gender, younger age,
endomorphic body type in women, no prior hysterectomy, and--most important by far--a willingness to try the sedation-free procedure with the assurance that at any point during the colonoscopy the patients would immediately receive sedation should they change their minds, explained Dr.
But--let me say this politely--those with a middle-age spread all the way around the axis of the body present more, not less, difficulty in concealment than more
endomorphic humans.
Seated at my glum table in Hotel-land (one of the very few places where the Full English is still commonly encountered), I was surrounded by
endomorphic businessmen dressed in plastic suits (blistered by halitosis fumes), who were eagerly consuming theirs, presumably in preparation for their third coronary.
Eurasians are more likely to have the
endomorphic physique of the best strength athletes.