Let us look at how the health experts try and stay healthy. What health habits do they practice in their day-to-day lives? What are the health secrets that you can incorporate into your life to maintain your emotional and physical well-being?

Modern women are working hard to take care of themselves and look their best. This means that they are putting their hair through some very tough punishment in form of bleaching, blow drying, backcombing, colouring, straightening, relaxing, perming and highlighting. This list will go on. They will have a full range of products and styling tools on their dressing table. Most of the women know very little about what they are using and the long term effects their hair will be exposed to.

Hand wash is important, not only for children but for parents as well. Good hand washing protects against the spread of many ailments, right from a common cold to serious illnesses like meningitis or Hepatitis A. Common cold is responsible for almost twenty two million lost school days each year. Most people will be affected by infectious diarrhoea even if they do not wash their hands properly.

Once you start earning, you have to sit down and weigh the benefits and risks of buying private health insurance so that you can take some informed decisions. Is it worth it? The world’s biggest insurance companies look to answer this question. Health experts and risk analysts are not able to predict when and if someone will fall sick or have an accident.