Elliot D. Abravanel is an American physician and diet counselor, who developed the Body Type system for weight loss and overall wellness.
Ann Louise Gittleman stated that Abravanel developed these ideas as an expansion of speculations by Henry G. Bieler and noted that this was done, "Without directly monitoring the behavior of any gland ..."[2] According to Abravanel, men can be P-types, T-types, or A-types, based on the dominant gland, and women can be P-types, T-types, A-types or G-types (only women can be G-types due to the purported overall influence that a woman's sexual glands can have on her body).
Through diet, exercise, and lifestyle changes, the Body Type system claims to enable an individual to move into greater balance, purportedly providing that person with greater energy reserves and a more balanced personality allegedly leading to less stress and increased overall effectiveness.
Abravanel's Body Type system is dismissed by medical health professionals as quackery.
Science writer Kurt Butler has written that Abravanel and his wife Elizabeth A.