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.
WHOLESOME
wholesome
(adjective) sound or exhibiting soundness in body or mind; “exercise develops wholesome appetites”; “a grin on his ugly wholesome face”
wholesome
(adjective) conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being; “wholesome attitude”; “wholesome appearance”; “wholesome food”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
wholesome (comparative wholesomer, superlative wholesomest)
Promoting good physical health and well-being.
Promoting moral and mental well-being.
Favourable to morals, religion or prosperity; sensible; conducive to good; salutary; promoting virtue or being virtuous.
Marked by wholeness; sound and healthy.
Synonyms
• (promoting health): healthy, healthful, salubrious
Antonyms
• unwholesome
Source: Wiktionary
Whole"some, a. [Compar. Wholesomer; superl. Wholesomest.] Etym: [Whole + some; cf. Icel. heilsamr, G. heilsam, D. heilzaam.]
1. Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious; salutary. Wholesome thirst and appetite. Milton. From which the industrious poor derive an agreeable and wholesome variety of food. A Smith.
2. Contributing to the health of the mind; favorable to morals, religion, or prosperity; conducive to good; salutary; sound; as, wholesome advice; wholesome doctrines; wholesome truths; wholesome laws. A wholesome tongue is a tree of life. Prov. xv. 4. I can not . . . make you a wholesome answer; my wit's diseased. Shak. A wholesome suspicion began to be entertained. Sir W. Scott.
3. Sound; healthy. [Obs.] Shak.
– Whole"some*ly, adv.
– Whole"some*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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