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Tue 06 Jun 2007Body image poses real riskThat's men for you:Maybe I read the wrong magazines but the days of the Charles Atlas ads promising that "you too can have a body like mine" seem to be over, writes Padraig O'Morain.Now, I do not want a visit from the heirs of "the World's Most Perfectly Developed Man" as he called himself so I had better say right now that the Charles Atlas company is alive and well on the internet.