Question

“Health is wealth”. What does this proverb mean?

Answer 1

Hint: Term health ensures all around the well being of a person.

Complete answer:
1. Term health ensures all around the well being of a person.
2. Health explains complete physical, mental, emotional and social well being of a person and not just absence of disease or proper physique.
3. Proper health ensures proper condition of a person's body & mind and extent to which they are free from physical, emotional illness.
4. A balanced diet , personal hygiene, regular exercise, good habits and proper attitude of mind are the basics of good health which shows no particular relation with wealth.
5. Hygiene is the base of wealth as it preserves, maintains and improves the health of an individual or community as whole.
6. Wealth does not ensure complete mental, emotional and social well beings of a person although it brings comfort to daily life activities.

Thus, one’s health is the greatest wealth.

Note: Absence of disease explains physical fitness and not healthiness.