How can food be healthy if it's not alive?

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

My dad brought something up to me yesterday that set me wondering. Often on TV, we hear about "healthy" food and "healthy" diets. Well, how are those healthy? I'm healthy if I eat something that's good for me. But isn't the something that's good for me healthful to make me healthy?

Also, I tried using "Healthy" food? as the subject, but it seems to reject anything with quotes in it for the subject line? Another Gaia glitch?


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[[Joan De Arc]]

Well, maybe because that one, all the foods come from plants? Herbivores eat the plants, which made food from the sun's rays..So basically, food WERE alive! XD  

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

Well, that's true. What I'm getting at though is, shouldn't food that's good for us be called "healthful" because it's good for our bodies and makes us healthy?  

[The Man who was Thursday]

healthy - 3. promoting health; healthful.  

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

I stand corrected. Thank you, Ezra.  

[[Joan De Arc]]

Yami no Hitokiri

Well, that's true. What I'm getting at though is, shouldn't food that's good for us be called "healthful" because it's good for our bodies and makes us healthy?

It is. It's just that modern day teenagers eat at fast food places so much now! It's because that since fast food is cheap, and healthy food is like at gourmet resteraunts, teenagers and adults technically go to the fast food. And that since they stuff fat in, it's a bit tastier.