HEALTHIER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does healthier mean? 

• HEALTHIER (adjective)
  The adjective HEALTHIER has 1 sense:

1. improved in health or physical condition

  Familiarity information: HEALTHIER used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEALTHIER (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Improved in health or physical condition

Synonyms:

fitter; healthier

Similar:

better ((comparative of 'good') changed for the better in health or fitness)

 Context examples 

This would be a relatively simple intervention with the potential to encourage healthier eating.

(Removing sweets and crisps from supermarket checkouts linked to dramatic fall in unhealthy snack purchases, University of Cambridge)

The findings could be used to produce healthier, more robust eggs by providing researchers with the means to genetically select laying hens with specific characteristics.

(Study paves way for healthier and more robust eggs, University of Granada)

The scientists discovered that trees that grow from seeds transported by now-overhunted animals are hardier and healthier.

(Overhunting of large animals has catastrophic effects on trees, NSF)

You live in a different world to me, Mr. Overton—a sweeter and healthier one.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Fruit-based smoothies are commonly seen as healthier options.

(Sugary Fruit Juices May Increase Risk of Early Death, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

People who improved to healthier diets after being diagnosed with Colorectal cancer as well as patients who followed one, had a lower risk of death from colorectal cancer and all causes.

(Healthy Diets Have Better Impact on Colorectal Cancer, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

These findings raise the prospect that it may be possible to use such knowledge of the gut microbiome to help develop healthier, more nutritious processed foods.

(Human Gut Microbe Could Make Processed Foods Healthier, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

But today, there are many effective medicines to fight the infection, and people with HIV have longer, healthier lives.

(HIV/AIDS Medicines, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

If you are infected with HIV, there are many things you can do to help ensure you have a longer, healthier life.

(Living with HIV/AIDS, NIH)

You can take steps to keep your kidneys healthier longer: • Choose foods with less salt (sodium) • Keep your blood pressure below 130/80 • Keep your blood glucose in the target range, if you have diabetes

(Chronic Kidney Disease, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)