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Eating healthily

"Healthy eating" but surely "eating healthily"?
  

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[/nq] Well, sure. But who is going to enforce it?

  • [/nq] Well, sure.
  • But who is going to enforce it?
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[nq:1]"Healthy eating" but surely "eating healthily"?[/nq]
Well, sure. But who is going to enforce it?
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[nq:1]"Healthy eating" but surely "eating healthily"?[/nq]
Depends on what is being eaten, and in what manner. If the ingestion is substantial and apace, perhaps it is healthy eating; but if it is of foods presumed to bring health, it would be healthful eating.

Cordially,
Eric Walker, Owlcroft House
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[nq:1]"Healthy eating" but surely "eating healthily"?[/nq]
Not so fastly, pardner. There's more to English grammar than a few rules of thumb. It can get quite complicated.
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[nq:1]"Healthy eating" but surely "eating healthily"?[/nq]
"Eating healthily" can be confused with meaning big portions ("a healthy portion" I recall being an expression for a "decent" / large plate-full) suggests it's a reference to the act of eating, e.g. chewing properly instead of gulping, rather than being a reference to diet with view to increasing or maintaining health.

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[nq:2]"Healthy eating" but surely "eating healthily"?[/nq]
[nq:1]"Eating healthily" =A0can be confused with meaning big portions ("a healthy portion" I recall being an expression for a "decent" ... misunderstanding, though I can see how it might; Compare with "Healthy Diet" I find "Diet Healthily" works for me too.[/nq]
er, that should have read "..; and could also suggest it is a referenc

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