Good health
is something that many of us take for granted. It is much more than an absence
of disease. Good health involves all the organs of the body wor king properly.
It also involves feeling both in body and mind.
Personer Health
1.Diet: to some extent, obtaining a balance
diet deepends on what you can afford. However , with a little knowledge it
should be possible for most people to obtain sufficient proteins, vitamins,
salts, and fibre and to avoid excesses of carbohydrate and fats.
2.Personal Hygiene: Simple precautions, such as washing
your hand after going to toilet or latrine, and before handling food can
greatly reduce the chance of picking up an intestinal diseases. Such habit will also prevent you from passing disease
onto other people.
Washing your whole body and changing
your clothes will help prevent fungus infection and will remove body parasites
which might be carrying disease organism.
3.Domestic Hygiene: Keeping cooking pots, plates, cups, and other
utensils clean will cut down the numbers of bacteria on them. Keeping flies out
of the house , or at least away from food and utencils,removes one source of
contamination.
4.Clean food and water : fruit and vegetables, which are
eaten without cooking, should be washed in clean water in case they are
contaminated with disease organisms. When cooking food, it is important to heat
it to a high enough temperature to kill bacteria and tapeworm cysts . Cooked food should be eaten at once or stored in a
cool, fly-proof place.
Unless you
have a supply of water which you know is clean and free from bacteria, it is a
sensible precaution to boil any water which is to be used for drinking.
5.Avoiding infected water: Unless you know that a pond, lake or
river is free from disease bacteria and from the water snails which carry
schistosomiasis, you should avoid paddling, bathing or washing in such places.
6.Not smoking: It now well established that smoking, especially cigarettes,
causes bronchitis, emphysema, atherosclerosis, heart attacks and lung cancer.
It is clearly sensible not to take up smoking or, if you have started , you you
give it up.
