A body support comprising one or more flexible containers and a plurality of load transmitting elements which have contact surfaces the area of which at a number of elements differs from the area of other elements to obtain an adaptation to the differing ratio of volume to weight of the parts of the human body, and a container which can be used in the body support which container has two outer layers of nonpermeable material and two inner layers all layers, being interconnected by cross seams to form chambers interconnected at the edges.