Prevention is Better than Cure
Health is the greatest of all possessions. It is said that one must preserve one’s health as though it were the most important gift to us. Health is precious and every one must look after it carefully.
Diseases are the worst enemies of good health. There are various kinds of bacteria and viruses in the atmosphere and these can attack man in such a way that man becomes ill and weak.
Diseases have to be kept away from man. The best way to do so is by preventing these diseases from affecting us. It is wise to prevent a disease rather than trying to cure it once it has already affected a person.
There are many medicines that have been invented for the cure of almost every disease. Drugs like aspirin quinine, penicillin etc have been used by doctors all over the world to cure influenza, malaria etc.
Antibiotics are given by doctors to fight serious infections. However, these are all cures that lead to various damages to the body as they have a weakening affect on the body. Hence it has often been advised that an over dose of medicines should be avoided.
In fact, as far as possible, one should let nature find its own ways of curing the patient and medicines should be taken only when the patient is suffering from a violent attack of some disease.
Self medication must be avoided. We must prevent any disease from attacking us by eating nutritious food and building up our resistance to such disease causing bacteria that we mentioned earlier. Regular exercise, Plenty of fresh filtered water, fruits etc can be used to prevent diseases from coming everywhere close to us.
We must be careful about the cleanliness of the water we drink because many diseases are borne by water. Sugar and salt must always be taken in limited amounts and we should stay away from spicy and food too.
One must make all these efforts of protecting oneself from diseases apart of one’s life. If this is a way of life and taking precaution like these becomes a habit, we can never fall ill and can remain healthy for a long time.
