Definitions
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- adjective
comparative form ofhealthy : morehealthy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective improved in health or physical condition
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Examples
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Many in the medical community are shifting their focus off of weight to advocate healthier eating and increased activity, and are finding that even though these changes do not result in fat people becoming *thin*, they do result in fat people becoming *healthier* as indicated improvements in BP, blood sugar, RHR, cholesterol levels, etc.
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Looking at your margins and the trends I am trying to understand where you will be able to maintain what you call healthier surge in profit in your guidance because if you are under increases maybe the costs will decrease, you already said that South Korean will not be online before 2011 and maybe the Selling, General
Healthcare Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2010
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Retail experts have predicted Americans will spend 1 to 3 percent more this holiday season – less than the 4 percent year-to-year growth in healthier times, but better than nothing as far as the stores as concerned.
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Encouraging food stamp users to engage in healthier lifestyles by banning the use of nutrition assistance on sugary beverages is good for our community.
Gordon Campbell: The Obesity Epidemic: One Way to Encourage Healthier Eating Gordon Campbell 2010
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Even healthier is whole wheat pasta loaded with fiber and all the essential parts of the whole grain including the bran, endosperm and the germ.
Mary Ann Esposito: Tips for World Pasta Day Mary Ann Esposito 2010
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Retail experts have predicted Americans will spend 1 to 3 percent more this holiday season – less than the 4 percent year-to-year growth in healthier times, but better than nothing as far as the stores as concerned.
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Encouraging food stamp users to engage in healthier lifestyles by banning the use of nutrition assistance on sugary beverages is good for our community.
Gordon Campbell: The Obesity Epidemic: One Way to Encourage Healthier Eating Gordon Campbell 2010
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Encouraging food stamp users to engage in healthier lifestyles by banning the use of nutrition assistance on sugary beverages is good for our community.
Gordon Campbell: The Obesity Epidemic: One Way to Encourage Healthier Eating Gordon Campbell 2010
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This will result in healthier vines that will have greater resistance to winter cold and be more disease resistant.
Melissa Dobson 2009
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Its critics fault the committee for contributing to a system that spends too much money on sophisticated procedures, while shorting the type of nuts-and-bolts primary care that could keep patients healthier from the start -- and save money.
Wonkbook: What matters for jobs; the Tea Parties vs. the appropriators; would more stimulus have saved the Dems? Ezra Klein 2010
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