Healthy Lifestyle Vocabulary
Healthy Lifestyle Vocabulary
Healthy Lifestyle Vocabulary
Nutritious – good for your body Sedentary – requiring sitting or little activity
Variety – a lot of different Longevity – the property of having lived for a
Vital – very important considerable time
Moderate – neither small nor large Cholesterol – a substance in the blood that
Serving – portion can cause heart disease
To eliminate – totally remove Diabetes – a disease characterized by high
Cut down (on sth) – to have less of glucose levels in the blood
something, to reduce Blood pressure – the pressure of the
Fattening – makes you fat circulating blood against the walls of the blood
Appetite – desire to eat vessels
Strongly advise – to recommend Exercise – the activity of using muscles to
Balanced diet – you eat all the right food keep fit
your body needs Heart disease – a sickness of the heart
Snack – small amount of food between meals Physical – involving the body
Overweight – fat, weighing more than usual Stress – pressure, a condition of extreme
Obese (adj.) – unhealthy overweight, having difficulty
excessive body weight Disease / illness – a health problem
Obesity (noun) – the condition of being obese Skip (meals) – not having a meal
Healthy – free from infirmity or disease Suffer from – to experience a disease or
Nutritional – of or relating to or providing health condition
nutrition Recover from – to recuperate from a disease
IMPORTANT:
Health is a noun. – I am in good health. (NOT I am in good healthy.)
Healthy is an adjective – In order to stay strong and healthy, you need to exercise regularly. (NOT strong and
health).