healthy

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Without healthy people, you cannot have a healthy economy, life, or ability to succeed; in other words a healthy America.

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  1. adjective Possessing good health.
  2. adjective Conducive to good health; healthful: healthy air.
  3. adjective Indicative of sound, rational thinking or frame of mind: a healthy attitude.

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  • Mother and child were healthy, which is the only true measure of success in these things. —  F ;SF; - vol 101 issue 01 - July 2001
  • He had what he liked to refer to as a healthy phobia of being trapped in places the size of a coffin. —  Transfer of Power - Flynn
  • As a child he was neither robust nor even healthy, which is not surprising, since he was not allowed to run afield with other children, enjoying the sweet air of nature, the flowers, the sunshine and blue sky. —  The World's Great Men of Music
  • Without healthy people, you cannot have a healthy economy, life, or ability to succeed; in other words a healthy America. —  TheZoo
  • Ricky Skaggs, Jonathan Falwell, Lee Strobel, Will Graham to be part of SBTC event Rest easy: Thin Mints are still kosher (* healthy* is another issue ...) « Ricky Skaggs, Jonathan Falwell, Lee Strobel, Will Graham to be part of SBTC event —  RELIGION
 

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