health
Other forms: healths
Your health is the condition of your body. If you barely get any sleep and only eat frozen pizza and jellybeans, you probably have poor health.
Health comes from the old English word for "whole," and you can think of it as the state of your whole being — both body and mind. We use health to talk about bodies and people, but also to talk about whole systems. If you lost your job, you might be worried about the health of your finances. If a bad manager provokes employees to be unproductive, investors might be worried about the health of a business.
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the general condition of body and mind
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a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease“physicians should be held responsible for the health of their patients”synonyms: wellnesstype of:eudaemonia, eudaimonia, upbeat, weal, welfare, well-being, wellbeinga contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous
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It's time to work out with this fit list of words all about exercise. Break a sweat, whip into shape, and let your mind become as flexible as your body.
Vocabulary from the Plain English summary of the Supreme Court's ruling upholding the Affordable Care Act. The Affordable Care Act, including its individual mandate that virtually all Americans buy health insurance, is constitutional. There were not five votes to uphold it on the ground that Congress could use its power to regulate commerce between the states to require everyone to buy health insurance. However, five Justices agreed that the penalty that someone must pay if he refuses to buy insurance is a kind of tax that Congress can impose using its taxing power. That is all that matters. Because the mandate survives, the Court did not need to decide what other parts of the statute were constitutional, except for a provision that required states to comply with new eligibility requirements for Medicaid or risk losing their funding.