An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
HEALTHY
goodly, goodish, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy
(adjective) large in amount or extent or degree; “it cost a considerable amount”; “a goodly amount”; “received a hefty bonus”; “a respectable sum”; “a tidy sum of money”; “a sizable fortune”
healthy
(adjective) having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease; “a rosy healthy baby”; “staying fit and healthy”
healthy, intelligent, levelheaded, level-headed, sound
(adjective) exercising or showing good judgment; “healthy scepticism”; “a healthy fear of rattlesnakes”; “the healthy attitude of French laws”; “healthy relations between labor and management”; “an intelligent solution”; “a sound approach to the problem”; “sound advice”; “no sound explanation for his decision”
healthy
(adjective) financially secure and functioning well; “a healthy economy”
healthy, salubrious, good for you
(adjective) promoting health; healthful; “a healthy diet”; “clean healthy air”; “plenty of healthy sleep”; “healthy and normal outlets for youthful energy”; “the salubrious mountain air and water”- C.B.Davis; “carrots are good for you”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
healthy (comparative healthier, superlative healthiest)
Enjoying health and vigor of body, mind, or spirit: well.
Antonym: unhealthy
Conducive to health.
Synonym: healthful
Antonym: unhealthy
Evincing health.
(figuratively) Significant, hefty; beneficial.
Usage notes
When a clearer distinction is intended, healthy is used to describe the state of the object, and healthful describes its ability to impart health to the recipient. Vegetables in good condition are both healthy (i.e, not rotten or diseased) and healthful (i.e, they improve the eaters' health, compared to eating junk food). By contrast, a poisonous plant can be healthy, but it is not healthful to eat it.
Source: Wiktionary
Health"y, a. [Compar. Healthier; superl. Healthiest.]
1. Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy chid; a healthy plant. His mind was now in a firm and healthy state. Macaulay.
2. Evincing health; as, a healthy pulse; a healthy complexion.
3. Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthy exercise; a healthy climate.
Syn.
– Vigorous; sound; hale; salubrious; healthful; wholesome; salutary.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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