On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 15:07:57 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Friday, September 23, 2016 at 6:01:54 PM UTC-4, Jeßus wrote:
>> On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 14:48:08 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >On Friday, September 23, 2016 at 4:18:01 PM UTC-4, Jeßus wrote:
>> >> On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 11:15:28 -0400, Brooklyn1
>> >> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >Nayla THE UNEDUCATED Azzahra wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >>Does this sound familiar? You WANT to eat healthy.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >You want to eat HEALTHFULLY!
>> >> >Eating "healthy" means eating huge portions.
>> >>
>> >> Only in America.
>> >
>> >Perhaps he's alluding to the expression "a healthy appetite".
>> >However, what that means is not eating like a glutton, but
>> >having the appetite of a healthy person, as opposed to the
>> >weak appetite of a sick person.
>> >
>> >The dictionary informs me that--informally--"healthy" can
>> >denote "considerable in size or amount", such as "a healthy
>> >glug of vodka in a pitcher of orange juice".
>>
>> Yes, it gets used that way here as well.
>>
>> > It's odd
>> >that Sheldon would suddenly use the informal definition,
>> >when throughout this thread he's been a stickler for what
>> >he believes to be correct usage.
>>
>> The only group of people I have ever heard say 'healthfully' or
>> healthful has been Americans and possibly Canadians. That was the
>> reason I took issue with Sheldon's comment, just trying to point out
>> that it isn't universal like he seems to imply.
>
>Nor is it actually very common in American usage. People say "healthy".
>I'm healthy. Broccoli is healthy. Only an idiot would be unable to
>grasp from context that I enjoy good health and the broccoli fosters
>good health. Oh, perhaps someone whose first language is not English,
>but the language is full of those sorts of pitfalls.

Indeed. I would hate to have to learn English as a second language.
It must be one of the most difficult languages to learn in terms of
inconsistencies and apparent contradictions.