Healthful
adjective
Good for health.
Eating fruits and vegetables is a healthful habit.
Often appears as...
- healthful lifestyle
- healthful diet
adjective
Helping to maintain or bring about good health.
Regular exercise and a balanced diet are healthful practices.
Often appears as...
- healthful practices
- healthful behavior
adjective
Good for health.
Eating fruits and vegetables is a healthful habit.
Often appears as...
- healthful lifestyle
- healthful diet
adjective
Helping to maintain or bring about good health.
Regular exercise and a balanced diet are healthful practices.
Often appears as...
- healthful practices
- healthful behavior
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Pro Tip 1/3Context Matters
Use 'healthful' to describe things promoting health rather than a state of being healthy.
Choosing whole grains is a healthful decision.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Nuance
'Healthful' usually carries a positive emotional connotation, implying wise choices.
Her healthful approach to life inspired others.
Pro Tip 3/3Not a Substitute
Don't use 'healthful' interchangeably with 'healthy'; 'healthy' often refers to a state, not a habit.
A healthful meal contributes to a healthy body.
Pro Tip 1/3Context Matters
Use 'healthful' to describe things promoting health rather than a state of being healthy.
Choosing whole grains is a healthful decision.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Nuance
'Healthful' usually carries a positive emotional connotation, implying wise choices.
Her healthful approach to life inspired others.
Pro Tip 3/3Not a Substitute
Don't use 'healthful' interchangeably with 'healthy'; 'healthy' often refers to a state, not a habit.
A healthful meal contributes to a healthy body.
Pro Tip 1/3Context Matters
Use 'healthful' to describe things promoting health rather than a state of being healthy.
Choosing whole grains is a healthful decision.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Nuance
'Healthful' usually carries a positive emotional connotation, implying wise choices.
Her healthful approach to life inspired others.
Pro Tip 3/3Not a Substitute
Don't use 'healthful' interchangeably with 'healthy'; 'healthy' often refers to a state, not a habit.
A healthful meal contributes to a healthy body.
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and his or her daily activities and diet. One thing I'll never forget is when my device first caught my grandfather's wandering out of bed at night. At that moment, I was really struck by the power of technology to change lives for the better. People living happily and healthfully -- that's the world that I imagine.
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The Community of Food PIPE...
DC Central Kitchen is very important to the auction here because they are one of our largest purchasers. I believe in what we do because it's just providing a good product, that's healthful and fresh,
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Linus Pauling
American Scientist
By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.
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Neal Barnard
American Author
We help people to begin truly healthful diets, and it is absolutely wonderful to see, not only their success, but also their delight at their ability to break old habits and feel really healthy for a change.
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Dean Ornish
American Educator
If you indulge yourself one day, you can eat more healthfully the next. To the degree you move in a healthful direction on the food spectrum, you're likely to feel better, lose weight, and gain health.
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Courtney Thorne-Smith
American Actress
You need to eat normally and healthfully, and you need to exercise. I'm so passionate about this because I think people spend their lives not happy in their bodies.
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Francis Bacon
English Philosopher
No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.
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Martina McBride
American Musician
Some days I do well and I eat really healthfully. But I don't think we should deprive ourselves of anything, so some days I indulge and give in to cravings.
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Daphne Oz
American Celebrity
My parents always wanted me to know why eating healthfully was important to overall performance, probably to drown out my whining for junk food.
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Francis Collins
American Scientist
The best diet is the one that can be sustained over the long term, combined with other healthful lifestyle behaviors.
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Jean Ingelow
English Poet
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
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Joely Fisher
American Actress
I'm always on the quest for something delicious and healthful.
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Linus Pauling
American Scientist
By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.
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Neal Barnard
American Author
We help people to begin truly healthful diets, and it is absolutely wonderful to see, not only their success, but also their delight at their ability to break old habits and feel really healthy for a change.
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Dean Ornish
American Educator
If you indulge yourself one day, you can eat more healthfully the next. To the degree you move in a healthful direction on the food spectrum, you're likely to feel better, lose weight, and gain health.
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Courtney Thorne-Smith
American Actress
You need to eat normally and healthfully, and you need to exercise. I'm so passionate about this because I think people spend their lives not happy in their bodies.
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Francis Bacon
English Philosopher
No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.
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Martina McBride
American Musician
Some days I do well and I eat really healthfully. But I don't think we should deprive ourselves of anything, so some days I indulge and give in to cravings.
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Daphne Oz
American Celebrity
My parents always wanted me to know why eating healthfully was important to overall performance, probably to drown out my whining for junk food.
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Francis Collins
American Scientist
The best diet is the one that can be sustained over the long term, combined with other healthful lifestyle behaviors.
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Jean Ingelow
English Poet
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
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Joely Fisher
American Actress
I'm always on the quest for something delicious and healthful.
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