When you are talking about food that is good for you it is a healthful food its not a healthy food. Peas are healthy. (this implies that the peas have good health)
Peas are healthful (means that peas impart good health upon their eaters)
It is even worse to see publications or hear speeches from those who are proclaimed or self-proclaimed experts on health make a statement like this. First time they use the expression it just blows their credibility right out the window.
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it’s a losing battle. when i contemplate the plight of english teachers in this devolving culture i sob uncontrollably.
“…it just blows their credibility right out the window.”
they’re “Health” specialists NOT “English” specialists..
you said it yourself, thats the term everyone is using. “Healthy food”. and now you’re mad that a health professional - a human being, thats part of that sociey - uses it ?!
so basiclly, what you’re saying, if your doctor made a grammer mistake while talking to you, he’d lose his credibility as a medical professional. and you’d just ignore his medical advice and just avoid taking any medications he might prescribe ?!
well, good luck to you grammer nazi.
*and i mean it in a nice way*
=)
indifferent on September 18th, 2007 at 4:24 am | Link
P.S. i am by no means saying that people who say “healthy food” are actually health professionals. health professionals usually stick to saying “healthy eating” rather then “healthy food”, since there isn’t a single thing out there that could be considered out right “healthy food”.
how “healthy” that food is depends on how much you eat of it, how often and what your nutritional needs are.
am just saying that saying “healthy food” doesn’t brand you automatically into a fraud.
hope you all stick to “healthy eating habits”
indifferent on September 18th, 2007 at 4:45 am | Link
grammar
IM just saying someone in a profession should know how to speak correctly about the advice his profession gives.
Here is another example. Once applying for health insurance a nurse came to visit me asking if I took any medications I told her Ibuprofen, she insisted on writting on the form that I take motrin (which is a brand name of Ibuprofen) She insisted it was the drug name when it was not. yes I lost any respect for her as a nurse and she was highly discredited.
So yes if a doctor is telling me I must take Advil (another brand name of ibuprofen) and I say ill take ibuprofen and he insists I must take Advil yes he looses credibility and I will probably be looking for another doctor.
Now I don’t think you can really say im a grammer nazzi if you look at my posts with mispellings and poor grammer.
An no I agree saying Healthy food does not brand you into fruad but what many of the so quote health experts are touting very well could. You said it yourself ” how “healthy”[sic] that food is depends on how much you eat of it, how often and what your nutritional needs are”
Mark on September 19th, 2007 at 1:36 pm | Link
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lala on November 18th, 2007 at 9:26 am | Link