Personal Hygiene

The term ‘personal hygiene’ is often confused and equated with personal cleanliness. As described in the earlier chapter, ill health is due to the unfavorable reaction between an individual, the disease producing agent and the environment. If an individual is constitutionally strong enough, and is well trained in observing good personal hygiene, he can completely neutralize the adverse effects of the offending agents and the unfavorable environment. This state of personal health can be acquired only through one’s own active efforts. All that attain and promote such a level of health constitutes the science of personal health.