Andrew Prentice, a professor of nutrition at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, suggested this week that obesity is now so widespread (hem) that it represents an evolutionary shift in human body-shape.

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The design, a more radical triangular wing-body shape, combines the plane's fuselage with the wings and has no tail.

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The whole fried fish arrives at your table in a pot of seasoned broth, its body curled into a dramatic C-shape, its face clenched in a grimace.

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First, the sheer amount of training it takes to get her body in shape is remarkable: Almost two years of daily six-, eight, 10- or 12-hour swims.

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But to answer your first question, I would say, yes, it is possible to love yourself on a day-to-day basis, no matter what your size, no matter what your height, no matter what your body shape is, and I really do think that's a mind-set that we need to focus on, you know, attaining.

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The mattresses are made from visco-elastic foam, a NASA padding innovation that is temperature-sensitive and softens to conform to the shape of the sleeper's body.

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These involve the near-simultaneous alteration of many body parts and it is rare for the fossil record to catch such palaeolycanthropes in mid-shape-shift, as it were.

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