What is health? Explain the factors …

Health is described as the state of complete physical, mental and social well being. Thus, being healthy means that one feels good physically, has a positive outlook and is able to cope with social and mental pressures without much difficulty.

For maintaining a healthy life cycle, a person needs to have a balanced and varied diet, needs to exercise, live regularly in a proper shelter and get enough sleep. Maintaining a good hygiene also reduces the chances of developing an infection. Our health is affected not only by unbalanced diet but also by disease causing organisms which may be water-borne, air-borne and food-borne.

Health means ability of a person or animal to remain free of illness and injuries.
Health is not only associated with illness, but it also includes factors that affect health like clean drinking water, pollution free environment, healthy food to eat etc.