Ayurveda promotes positive, healthy relationships with food. It allows people to understand their bodies' responses to stress, environment, weather, as well as specific foods. Food sensitivities play a big role in health problems, digestive disorders, inability to lose weight and many other imbalances. This body type types tend to be built more on the solid, larger-boned side. Kapha is also associated with water and the earth.
Pitta governs metabolism.
The body type tends to medium frame with good genetics toward muscularity. Pitta is also associated with fire and water. Vata governs movement. The body type tends to be on the thin side with high metabolism. Understanding your dosha allows you to make diet and lifestyle changes that can dramatically affect your health.