Your 'ideal' body, and why you want it
- Written by The Conversation Contributor
We'd all like to have a different, or at least improved, body. But why do we want the body we want?Mike/Flickr, CC BY-SAA 2011 British survey found 12% of women would give up two to ten years of their lives just to be their ideal weight, while 29% of men think about their appearance at least five times a day. So what makes an ideal body, and why...






