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Personal Hygiene

"Personal Hygiene is the First Step to a Healthier You"

Personal hygiene is the first step in achieving and maintaining good health. Good personal hygiene is important for the well being of your self not only physically but emotionally as well.  If you do not take care of your health physically, health complications may worsen to affect your emotional state as well. 

While good personal hygiene should start with the washing of your hands, it is also important to practice maintenance of your health by being aware of germs in your everyday surroundings.  If you find yourself in close proximity to others during the day; the office, a school building, etc., it is important that you take good care of yourself and are knowledgeable about how the spread of germs can harm your health.

By maintaining your personal hygiene, you will inevitably be able to avoid coming down with a cold or something worse.  While you cannot prevent someone from coming into contact with you, you can help yourself by avoiding them or keeping sanitizers as well as other products to ensure yourpersonal hygiene is maintained as best as it can.

Your personal hygiene and the upkeep of yourself is also imperative to teaching those around you to do the same.  Just as germs spread, so too can goodpersonal hygiene.  By practicing good personal hygiene , you will persuade others to do so as well.  If you have a family, then lead by example. Children like with anything else absorb the most information at a young age.  So teaching them goodpersonal hygiene is your responsibility.