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7.4 Preventive and Control Measures of Communicable Diseases

1. Personal hygiene should be maintained.
2. Children should be immunized according to the schedule.
3. Balanced diet should be taken.
4. Safe and healthy sexual practice should be adopted.
5. Animal bite/ insect bite should be avoided.
6. Consumption of contaiminated food and water should be avoided.

7.5 Major Causes of Non-communicable Diseases

1. Mental tension
2. Regular consumption of tobacco
3. Regular consumption of alcohol
4. Use of narcotics (drugs)
5. Lack of physical exercise
6. Unhealthy lifestyle
7. Malnutrition
8. Heredity
9. Obesity

7.6 Preventive and Control Measures of Non-communicable Diseases
1. Smoking tobacco and drinking alcohol should be avoided.

2. Balanced diet should be consumed.
3. Physical exercise should be done regularly.
4. Use of narcotics/drugs should be avoided.
5. Obesity should be reduced.

6. Healthy lifestyle should be adopted.
7. We should be free from hypertension.
8. Yoga and pranayam should be done regularly.

7.7 Cycle of Communicable Diseases

Soon after entry of germs in the body, we do not develop the symptom of the concerned
disease. Germs increase their number rapidly if we have weak immune system. When
the immune system of the body cannot fight against disease causing germs, symptoms of
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