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healthy eating

healthy eating

12 2.5
Eating different foods in the right amounts to keep your body well
  • noun
  • /ˈhɛlθi ˈiːtɪŋ/
translation icon : alimentación saludable
  • Adopting healthy eating habits can significantly improve your overall well-being.
  • healthy eating habits
  • promote healthy eating
  • information on healthy eating

And so my first conscious thought about healthy eating or drinking or whatever was focused on calories more than anything else.

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Examples

  • Several school environment and policy changes have been shown to increase physical activity and healthy eating.

    Academic text (2013)
  • And what works is adopting a healthy eating lifestyle based on cooking your own food, eating whole, natural foods.

  • So trust me when I say this, healthy eating and exercise will make a world of a difference in your health.

  • Songs have also been used to teach about the benefits of healthy eating and exercise.

    Academic text (2015)
  • However, the VITAL program emphasized the importance of healthy eating and increasing physical activity.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Both projects aimed to increase healthy eating and physical activity behaviors.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Areas are provided for moms, families, schools, communities, and others interested in learning about healthy eating.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Individuals with diabetes had more medical, physical, social, and financial limitations to healthy eating than those without diabetes.

    Academic text (2007)
  • The VITAL curriculum consists of eight different weekly lessons that teach young children healthy eating and appropriate physical activity.

    Academic text (2012)
  • A lifestyle embedded with physical fitness and healthy eating habits is imperative for promoting lifelong physical activity.

    Academic text (2014)

Synonyms

balanced diet
vshealthy eating
8 2.3

A diet with different foods in the right amounts to keep the body healthy

is an ongoing practice of choosing nutritious food to maintain or improve health

Antonyms

43 1.0

Food that tastes good but is unhealthy and not good for your body

How Healthy

healthy eating
12 2.5
to diet
24 3.3
overeating
9 2.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

healthy + eating

The noun phrase 'healthy eating' is transparently compositional: 'healthy' (good for physical health) modifies 'eating' (the act of consuming food), yielding the straightforward meaning 'eating that is good for health.' This adjective + gerund pattern is common across languages and standard in English, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

Healthy eating is a simple image: healthy means 'well and strong' and eating is the food you put in your body, so the phrase refers to the habit of choosing foods that help you 'stay healthy'.