Importance Of Hygiene In Life

Hygiene is very important in life. Lack of it besets one with a lot of health, psychological and social problems.

Defined by the Merriam –Webster dictionary as ‘the things that you do to keep yourself and your surroundings clean in order to maintain good health’, it incidentally includes, apart from ‘cleanliness’, all circumstances and practices, lifestyle issues, premises and commodities that engender a safe and healthy environment. The word is derived from the Greek Goddess of health ‘ Hygeia’.

Ill health risks are reduced through hygiene practices, but it also equally affects how we and others perceive ourselves and influence our levels of confidence and self-esteem, affecting many aspects of our lives.

Indians are said to have bad hygiene habits. We are famous

A 27 stone woman Linda Pearson, 62, feared her huge size 38 frame would get trapped in the tub and hence did not have a bath for 20 years!. But this mother of two shed a 16 stone and 13 dress sizes and now a slim size 12, speaks of her joy at getting her life back and is no longer afraid to have a bath. So sometimes other circumstances also make people be unhygienic.

80-year-old Iranian Haji who lives in isolation in Dejgah village, in the Southern Iranian province of Fars, believes that "cleanliness brings him sickness." That 's why he hasn 't bathed at all in the past 60 years.

Nearer home, Kailash Singh 65, can be called the world 's smelliest man - after refusing to wash for more than 37 years. He has not bathed or cut his 6ft-long dreadlocks since 1974, shortly after he married.

Why this unconventional decision? He claims a priest guaranteed him a much-prized son and heir if he followed the advice. Despite neighbours joking, the sweaty farmer would be lucky if he could persuade his wife to have any children at all. He has seven