eat right

idiom

: to eat healthy foods
It's important to eat right.

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Food, Honestly is a monthly column discussing how people actually eat right now – not through reviews or recipes, but through real talk about cost, convenience and everyday food decisions. Allyson Reedy, Denver Post, 14 Jan. 2026 This down-regulation has been a good thing for people like Burton who finally love eating again after decades struggling to eat right and keep a healthy weight. Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 16 Dec. 2025 But sleeping on a tour bus and not being able to eat right? David Lyman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 16 Oct. 2025 Without context, calling a death preventable can imply individual failure — that someone didn’t eat right, didn’t take their medication, didn’t go to the doctor in time. Zachary W. Schulz, The Conversation, 17 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for eat right

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“Eat right.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eat%20right. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.

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