Prominent physician and bestselling author Deepak Chopra provides a program of simple, natural strategies for balancing mind and body to achieve your unique ideal weight. To help you identify the characteristics of your particular physiology, Perfect Weight includes questions about your body type based on the traditional Indian science of health known as Ayurveda. By answering these questions, and by becoming familiar with Ayurveda's astonishing perceptive descriptions of the body and its variations, you can instantly gain access to five thousand years of wisdom about human health. With this as a starting point, you'll be able to recognize - perhaps for the first time - the real needs and rhythms of your body.