What is "healthful"

Usage examples of "healthful".

We do not use those narcotics and compounds of antipyrine and other similar agents which are very depressing in their effects, and, like morphine and other preparations of opium, give only temporary relief, and interfere with the action of the heart, but we use treatment that builds up the system, removes the cause of the difficulty and restores the nervous system and all the organs of the body to a normal and healthful condition.

Doubtless our best thoughts are deeply tinged by the healthful or diseased conditions of such organs as the stomach, the lungs, the heart, or even the muscular or circulatory systems, and these impressions, when carried to the sensorium, are reflected by the thoughts, for reflex action is the third class of functions, assigned to the cerebrum.

It is not expected to raise any standard of perfection, or in any way to hamper individual development, but a body of concentrated opinion may raise the standard by promoting healthful and helpful criticism, by discouraging mediocrity and meretricious smartness, by keeping alive the traditions of good literature, while it is hospitable to all discoverers of new worlds.

And by the secret hand of Thy remedy was my swelling lessened, and the disordered and darkened eyesight of my mind, by the sharp anointings of healthful sorrows, was from day to day made whole.

Made mainly of sugar and carbonated water, Orange Crush promoted its small amount of California orange concentrate as healthful, hoping to capitalize on the food purity crusades of that era.

Rosemary extolled the healthful properties of blackstrap molasses.

Though sweatbaths were healthful and cleansed the skin, they did little to eliminate normal body odors, but that was not their purpose.

May you eat three balanced meals a day and have healthful, regular bowel movements.

Yet my Uneasiness will be extreamly softned, if Fortune shall keep him at least healthful and Secure.

We have been so long used in Europe to that dreary business of war on the great scale, trailing epidemics and leaving pestilential corpses in its train, that we have almost forgotten its original, the most healthful, if not the most humane, of all field sports--hedge-warfare.

So every bit of brisk living, and above all when it is healthful, is just so much gained upon the wholesale filcher, death.

Five minutes later, when a forced draft swept the room clean of the anesthetic, enough had been administered to assure a healthful eight hours.

The morning was fine and warm, the ground cool to the feet after the late rain, the hedges gayer and more green, the air clear, and everything fresh and healthful.

Housewife gets to go to the grocery store and stock up on the finest, most nutritious produce ever grown on this planet at a price that makes healthful eating the only logical choice.

The pure, healthful, living, joyous air that was easy to breathe inundated him.