It bugs me when people say this...

[VanessaNicole]

Why do so many people confuse the word "healthy" with "healthful"???

Fruits and vegetables are not healthy, they are dead.

Lean proteins like chicken and fish are also not healthy. They are dead carcasses.

It's "healthful" okay??? Why do so many people say they "eat healthy"???

VanessaNicole

 

[Rocco32]

I don't know, I just like looking at your avi!

 

[Little Wing]

and i think you mean Michelangelo

 

[GFR]

I love healthy and with healthful food.

 

[Little Wing]

 

[Tough Old Man]

Why do so many people confuse the word "healthy" with "healthful"???

Fruits and vegetables are not healthy, they are dead.

Lean proteins like chicken and fish are also not healthy. They are dead carcasses.

It's "healthful" okay??? Why do so many people say they "eat healthy"???

VanessaNicole

What do you call the breast of the chicken?

what do you call the fish filet?

What do you call eye of the round?

I call it all good, satisfying and healthy

 

[VanessaNicole]

Oh you're right, Little Wing...I'm gonna fix that...

 

[Little Wing]

http://www.whfoods.com/

 

[VanessaNicole]

It's still wrong...

Food is dead by the time you eat it. Unless you are picking fruit off a tree or something.

 

[Little Wing]

it is kinda funny when you think of it that way... any dead thing is far from healthy...

it's hard to believe a man could turn a block of stone into something so beautiful.... he did the Pieta at age 23 and finished it in less than two years.

 

[BigDyl]

Why do so many people confuse the word "healthy" with "healthful"???

Fruits and vegetables are not healthy, they are dead.

Lean proteins like chicken and fish are also not healthy. They are dead carcasses.

It's "healthful" okay??? Why do so many people say they "eat healthy"???

VanessaNicole

Or Fresh.



Subway, eat Fresh.

 

[NeilPearson]

I have no problem with healthy. The English has been considered fine for hundreds of years apparantly. Either word is fine.

From dictionary.com:

Usage Note: The distinction in meaning between healthy (???possessing good health???) and healthful (???conducive to good health???) was ascribed to the two terms only as late as the 1880s. This distinction, though tenaciously supported by some critics, is belied by citational evidence. Healthy has been used to mean ???healthful??? since the 16th century. Use of healthy in this sense is to be found in the works of many distinguished writers, with this example from John Locke being typical: ???Gardening... and working in wood, are fit and healthy recreations for a man of study or business.??? Therefore, both healthy and healthful are correct in these contexts: a healthy climate, a healthful climate; a healthful diet, a healthy diet.