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healthful

[helth-fuhl] / ˈhɛlθ fəl /
ADJECTIVE
good for health
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"Healthful" plant-based foods include fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, legumes, oils, coffee, and tea.

From Science Daily • Nov. 24, 2025

Healthful food options mean nothing artificial; everything will be fresh-pressed, organic, vegan-ish and gluten free .

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2024

Researchers measured how closely the participants followed the dietary recommendations of the Healthy Eating Index 2015, the Alternate Mediterranean Diet, the Healthful Plant-based Diet Index and the Alternate Healthy Eating Index.

From Washington Times • Jan. 9, 2023

Judite Blanc, a psychologist and postdoctoral fellow at New York University School of Medicine’s Center for Healthful Behavior Change, has studied incidences of insomnia among survivors of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

From Slate • Apr. 14, 2020

The latter was one of the doctors attached to Healthful House, and had been at once sent to the pavilion by the director when Roch’s paroxysm came on.

From Facing the Flag by Verne, Jules




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