Abstract

Dr. Navedita Kumari* and Dr. Anupam Pathak

ABSTRACT

Health includes one?s reserve of physical strength and stamina as well as mental steadiness to meet the requirements of the daily life. Only healthy individual of sound body and mind can endure social and cultural pressures. Health not only means freedom from the disease, but the ability to work with the satisfaction and self control. Health is the best root factor in achieving Dharma (attain pious acts), Artha (wealth), Kama (desire) and Moksha (salvation). Lifestyle change, more than any other factor, is considered to be the best way of preventing the disease and early death in our society. When people in western society die before the age of 65, it is considered to be early or premature death. Many factors contribute to early death. The major causes of early death have changed from infectious diseases to chronic lifestyle-related conditions. The most important is unhealthy lifestyles that contribute to more than half of all early deaths. One who wants to keep fit himself for whole of his life time should also be fit for every day. Health depends on how one spends day. The ideal life style for a day is called as daily regimen (Dinacharya). Daily regimen explains the various duties from one day to the next day.