Health and How to preserve it?
Good health is necessary for happiness and success. Those who do not possess good health cannot enjoy any happiness in life. Life appears to be a burden to them. Although we sometimes find weak and ailing people enjoying and doing good work in spite of bad health, such cases are few and exceptional. In the case of most people bad health means misery and failure.
How can we keep our health? Only by knowing and carefully observing the rules of health. We must eat only good, plain and wholesome food. We must not eat too much or too little. We must eat as much as is required to satisfy our hunger. Again, we should not take too many rich and dainty dishes which affect our health.
We must take physical exercise regularly. A ploughman or a coolie who works hard the whole day may not need exercise, but those of us who do mental work need it most. We can get it in outdoor games, athletic sports, riding, running, walking or swimming, etc.
We must take in as much of fresh air as possible. We must not live in rooms where there is not enough sunlight and where we do not get plenty of fresh air to breathe. Many of us ruin our health by living in close, stuffy, and ill-ventilated rooms and breathing foul air. We must remain out of doors for as long a time as we can.
We must work. We must not remain idle. “An idle man’s brain is the devil’s workshop.” An idle man cannot enjoy good health and happiness. Work is the spice of life. Honest, regular, interesting work, so long as it is not too exhausting, will do much to keep us in health.