To be or not to be toned? Want to have a wash-board stomach? Ripped visible abs? Or how about strong, lean arms? Men and women across America strive for the perfect, flawless, and celebrity type bodies. Why do they? A physical-minded man's mentality is usually to get big and a woman's mind thinks of goals to accomplish by reducing and shedding pounds of the mid-section. Although people in America don't realize that just because a man is enormous, does not always mean they take steroids and instantly become huge or if they come across a slim and slender women like a runway model, does not mean they are bulimic. Even though physical-minded citizens of America are admiring and wanting to be toned and fit, they are also obligated to be healthy inside and out.
             Back in the twentieth-century, an Italian thin and fair skin boy, had migrated to the United States by the name of Angelo "Charles" Siciliano which he was, everyday, constantly being picked and bullied when attending school. By his teenage years, he decided to construct his physique after being kicked in the face with a handful of sand in Coney Island, New Jersey. In the year of 1921 he had competed in a bodybuilding contest at Madison Square Garden in New York City and became the world's most developed man of his time. Soon after the contest, he changed his name to Charles Atlas, and that's how it all started. Since Atlas revealed his self-esteem and his strong physique to American males, as well as women, he affected men by constantly thinking if they looked physically built and attractive in public and in the media.
             Years ago, the stereotypical man was known to be physically strong and was to do all the hard labor, such as, hunting, chopping wood, plumbing, and to provide the family with all their needs. Charles Atlas was just the one that began to show it through his appearance. Atlas' body is the ideal media physique that everyo...