Good health is more important than free from disease. Healthy people are more efficient, and productive and live longer than unfit people. Good health includes everything: good timely meals, body in action as in exercising, yoga, meditation, mindfulness and will and most importantly cleansing of inner and outer self.
As the saying goes, “Health is wealth”, we have always read this line, wrote essays back then but now it carry weight. According to World Health Organization, health defined as ‘a state of complete physical, social and mental well-being and not merely absence of disease or infirmity’
Health hygiene refers to behaviors that can improve cleanliness and lead to healthy life-style Now let’s see some important factors that contribute to our good health:
Balanced diet:
Your diet should consist variety of different types of food and should provide adequate amounts of essential for good health. Carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, proteins, fiber and water are all vital components of a balanced diet. Choose the food components that are close to nature and less processed foods.
Personal and Community hygiene:
You should keep yourself and your surrounding environment clean and tidy. Diseases and illness are also caused by unhygienic environment and intakes we have.
The Govt. of India has escalated their motto around public health and hygiene. Not just cleanliness protocols but increase in safe drinking water and sanitation facilities.
Tips to keep yourselves hygienic:
Bathe regularly: It keeps us clean. Doing it daily, cleans the germs, dirt and sweat of the body. It also cleanses our mind.
Wash hands: Needless to say, your hands are the carrier of maximum germs. To keep them clean, keep sanitizing it. Either with soup, hand wash or alcohol-based sanitizing gels.
Trimming nails on regular intervals, cleaning earwax, brushing teeth twice a day, use mouth was for oral hygiene.
Practicing sleep hygiene: Getting a full night’s sleep (approx. 8 hrs. at night) is extremely important. It helps the brain to cure malfunctioning and helps in achieving overall health and happiness. Establishing good sleep ritual daily would lead to better actions and refreshed feel during day.
Health and hygiene are related terms on context to a fit and healthy life. Above all factors will help you all to achieve and follow good hygiene habits.
Because habits define us.