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Women's Health Advantage

As a woman you have plenty of resources available to you that your ancestors never had. This could be called the women's health advantage. After all, consider what your ancestors had. They had doctors who knew little about the woman's body because up until a certain time period it was uncouth to discuss even a woman's legs. Now we have thousands of sites including one called the Women's Health Advantage.

The Women's Health Advantage site is based in Indiana where there are four clinics that give advantage to women who live in the area. Basically, the clinics at Women's Health Advantage are all about women's services. They have obstetrics, gynecology, laboratory services, ultrasound, mammography, and DEXA scans. You can be a patient with Women's Health Advantage, find physicians, and garner information. You can even find insurance through their online site.

These are just two ways to look at what Women's Health Advantage means. Another way is to look at it from a man woman perspective. Men have largely held positions that offer insurance to the whole family. They have also been the breadwinners in the family. It was once thought that a wife could out live her husband by several years if she made it through childbirth because of the lower stress levels placed on the woman.

While it is not all together true it was considered women's health advantage to take care of the household and family, thus providing a longer life. Of course, years before the men were supposed to have the advantage of long life because the woman was considered to be the weaker sex.

In muscle mass, thus brawn, women can be weaker. But, when it comes to pain most women have a higher pain tolerance due to the body's need to go through childbirth. Furthermore, women focus on their health a lot more than men, giving us the advantage of a longer life. We see a doctor when something is wrong, and do not often ignore it. In recent years we have focused more on preventative care to ensure we catch a problem before it becomes worse.

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