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Japan has become a super-aged society and the average life expectancy has been extended, however the disparity between healthy life expectancy to average expectancy is longer in women. Women are more likely to need nursing care due to osteoarthritis. Many women are forced to adopt a gender culture, such as wearing high heels to meet social demands, and the physical harm is more than male. Such a gendered body caused problems that affect the actual motion and form of the body. Health can include both sex and social and cultural gender differences. This article focuses on the physical aspects of health, and first mentions gender differences in health and medical care. Based on the physical gender differences in the background of biological gender differences, as a specific measure necessary to extend healthy life expectancy, with one of physical technique of Tai Chi including the theoretical background on the effectiveness. Move of the body consciously could be a key method of integrating the body and mind.
