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healthful, wholesome, salubrious, salutary mean favorable to the health of mind or body. healthful implies a positive contribution to a healthy condition.

- a healthful diet

wholesome applies to what benefits, builds up, or sustains physically, mentally, or spiritually.

- wholesome foods
- the movie is wholesome family entertainment

salubrious applies chiefly to the helpful effects of climate or air.

- cool and salubrious weather

salutary describes something corrective or beneficially effective, even though it may in itself be unpleasant.

- a salutary warning that resulted in increased production

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