The habits which are learnt or followed at a young age, get embedded into one's personality. Cleanliness is one of the most important practice for a clean and healthy environment. It may be related to public hygiene or personal hygiene. Some regular hygiene practices may be considered good habits by a society, while the neglect of hygiene can be considered disgusting, disrespectful, or threatening.
Certain habits like washing hands before meals, bathing, brushing teeth and cutting nails should be practiced from early age. These are considered as personal habits. Apart from these all, we have to be careful about our surroundings too. Since we live in a society, it’s our duty to take care of our environment. Tidiness must be the first and foremost responsibility of everyone.
It is not a work that needs to be done forcefully. Practicing good body hygiene helps you feel good about yourself, which is important for your mental health. People who have poor hygiene — disheveled hair and clothes, body odor, bad breath, missing teeth, and the like — often are seen as unhealthy and may face discrimination.
If you want to minimize your risk of infection and also enhance your overall health. One should start to follow certain habits like taking a bath regularly, trim your nails every week, brush your teeth after every meal. Washing your hands before preparing or eating food, after going to the bathroom, after coughing or sneezing, and after handling garbage.
It is essential to follow certain good practices like keeping our surroundings clean, avoiding littering in public places, refraining from spitting on the road, lack of hygiene and cleanliness is an open invitation to infectious disease.
Start now! And keep changing gradually.
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