Breast Health
Your breast health is important. Our breasts help us feel feminine, attractive, and feed our babies. It is important to know some of the key ways we can keep them healthy, and what types of disorders can afflict them and what types of tests are commonly used to diagnose problems. Please use this area as a resource for common questions women have about breast health: The term breast can refer to the upper ventral region of the human torso. Alternatively, the term is used for each of two parts of that, especially for women: the breasts are parts of the female human body that contain the organs that secrete milk used to feed infants. Males also have breasts and are born with the main milk ducts intact, but while the gland that produces milk is present in the male, it normally remains undeveloped. In some situations male breast development does occur, a condition called gynecomastia. Milk production can also occur in both men and women as a rare side-effect of some medicinal drugs (such as some antipsychotic medication). Both sexes have a large concentration of blood vessels and nerves in their nipples. Breast health is important. It is commonly assumed by biologists that the real evolutionary purpose of women having breasts is to attract the male of the species; that, in other words, breasts are secondary sex characteristics. Some biologists believe that the shape of female breasts evolved as a frontal counterpart to that of the buttocks, the reason being that whilst other primates mate in the typical piggy-back position, humans are more likely to successfully copulate mating face on. A secondary sexual characteristic on a woman's chest would have encouraged this in more primative incarnations of the human race, and a face on encounter would have helped foundate a relationship between partners beyond merely a sexual one. Others believe that the human breast evolved in order to prevent infants from suffocating while feeding. Since human infants do not have a protruding jaw like our ancestors and the other primates, the infant's nose might be blocked by a flat female chest while feeding. According to this theory, as the human jaw became recessed, so the breasts became larger to compensate. A common misconception is that human female breasts are shaped the way that they are so that they can feed babies by producing milk. The mammary glands that secrete the milk from the breasts make up a relatively small fraction of the overall breast tissue. Most of the human female breast is actually adipose tissue (fat) and connective tissue. Breast size does not make any difference to a woman's ability to nurse a baby. Because some cultures place a high value on symmetry of the female human form, and because women often identify their femininity and sense of self with their breasts, many women in developed countries undergo breast reconstruction after mastectomy for breast cancer. There are many slang terms for the breasts. Generally tits, boobs, cans, rack, hooters, knockers, twins, boobies and jugs are commonly employed. Some studies have shown that ample bare breasts can elicit heightened sexual desires from men and women. Because the breasts are sexually sensitive in many cases, many cultures view them as private or 'dirty', or interpret their display as sexual (in some cases, even when they are being used for their primary purpose of nursing offspring). Sometimes, this has led to women being arrested for indecent exposure for breastfeeding their children in public. Opinions differ as to whether this sexual response on the part of others is the result of breasts, in general, being covered or uncovered. Historically, breasts were regarded as fertility symbols, due to their association with life-giving milk. Ancient statues of goddesses—so-called Venus figurines—often emphasised the breasts, as in the example of the Venus of Willendorf. In historic times, goddesses such as Ishtar were shown with multiple breasts, alluding to their role as goddesses of childbirth. some of the breast health page content--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breastbreast health 
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