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A passage is given with 5 questions following it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and click the button corresponding to it. 
In the world today we make health an end in itself. We have forgotten that health really means to enable a person to do his work and do it well. A lot of modern medicine, and this includes many patients as well as many physicians, pay very little attention to health but very much attention to those who imagine they are ill. Our great concern with health is shown by the medical columns in newspapers, the health articles in popular magazines and the popularity of television programmes and all those books on medicine. We talk about health all the time. Yet for the most part the only result is more people with imaginary illness. A healthy man should not be wasting time talking about health : he should be using health for work

The passage suggests that:

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SSC CGL 2016 (Tier 1) Previous Year Question Paper (11-Sep-2016) (Shift 2)
The correct answer is

Health is only a means to an end

The passage indicates that health should not be considered an end in itself, but rather a means to an end. It suggests that the purpose of being healthy is to enable a person to perform their work effectively. The overall message focuses on the idea that instead of overly emphasizing health through discussions or media consumerism, the true value of health is realized through its application in fulfilling one's duties and responsibilities. Therefore, the correct statement among the provided options is: "Health is only a means to an end."

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