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SUMMARY
When Fitness Challenge took over the country
A few months ago, there was a huge euphoria on the social media wherein
celebrities, citizens, corporate honchos, and politicians were storming the social
media with their workout videos and throwing fitness challenge to their friends
too. The Prime Minister himself accepted the challenge and uploaded his workout
routine video where he was seen performing yoga. What was this all about?
Why such frenzy?
It was the social media movement of #HumFitTohIndiaFit propagating a healthy lifestyle
in the country. The Prime Minister, taking up the challenge by himself, inspired the citizens
to adopt a regular fitness regime.
It was an initiative to build awareness around the pressing need to combat
poor lifestyle-related ailments like diabetes, heart strokes, and blood
pressure, which see no age. These diseases are the result of a lack of physical
activity and mounting stress. First, we ignore our health and after a point
of time, it is the health which ignores us and makes us sick.
In today’s world where occupations and education have taken control over our
lives, the health gets a step-motherly treatment. We tend to forget the fact that
health is wealth and if we compromise on it for fulfilling our aspirations, we
would not be able to enjoy the fruits of labour at a later stage!
