What's the difference between unhealth and unhealthy?

Unhealth


Definition:

  • (n.) Unsoundness; disease.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Monday's ruling didn't just undercut the mayor's farewell gesture, a capstone in his crusade against unhealthful or just distasteful public behavior, which he was planning to trumpet on Letterman that night.
  • (2) In the present study the subjective experience of health and unhealth was studied in a defined population of patients with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM).
  • (3) These personality characteristics are implicated in the high rate of mental unhealth in mentally retarded persons.
  • (4) One photograph was of a "healthful" food or activity, and the other was "unhealthful."
  • (5) When health is defined from a holistic view, traditional measures of control in diabetes, such as analysis of blood glucose or HbA1c, are of limited use as indicators of health and unhealth.
  • (6) Arthritis tends to promote inactivity, and inactivity tends to promote an unhealthful constellation of blood abnormalities that increases the risk of heart attack and stroke.
  • (7) Entering medical students currently report positive attitudes toward the concept of preventive cardiology but express a lack of confidence in the physician's ability to change unhealthful habits of their patients.
  • (8) Nevertheless, such interventions would be worthwhile if they prevented unhealthful life styles from gaining a foothold in these countries.
  • (9) The series has featured a group of volunteers who are at high risk of diseases because of their unhealthful habits and two health educators who counsel the studio group and the viewers to make changes in health behaviors.
  • (10) These findings suggest that prevention programs incorporate strategies to maximize peer support for healthful behavior and to counteract the effects of unhealthful behavior modeled by peers.
  • (11) On the other hand, evaluation of attitudes and certain personality variables might provide guidance both in discovering unhealth and in creating individual self-care programmes for its treatment.
  • (12) Students frequently indicated, however, that it is "extremely difficult" to change patients' unhealthful habits and that "physician encouragement" may not be sufficient to help patients achieve more healthful behaviors.

Unhealthy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A nine-year-old Scottish girl who attracted two million readers to a blog documenting her school lunches , consisting of unappealing and unhealthy dishes served up to pupils, has been forced to end the project after the council banned her from taking pictures of the food in school.
  • (2) Many elements of the set had been spun out of background glimpses from the film, references you'd only register after an unhealthy number of viewings.
  • (3) The effects of age and acclimatization in the healthy and unhealthy elderly and the very young are reviewed briefly as is also the possibility that air conditioning may have an adverse effect on acclimatization.
  • (4) Yesterday his comments were echoed by the assistant secretary of state for south Asia, Richard Boucher, who said there were signs that Iran was involved in "unhealthy" activities, including contacts with and supplies to the Taliban.
  • (5) Russell also described the Commonwealth Games as a catalyst but was realistic enough not to claim they immediately changed an area with long, deep-rooted problems, or miraculously roused a poor, generally unhealthy local population into vigorously playing sport.
  • (6) Conversely, the finest restorative fabrication can be markedly diminished by unhealthy, poorly maintained gingival and periodontal tissues.
  • (7) The study aims to establish whether recovery from myocardial infarction is the strongest or, alternatively, the only motivation toward changing unhealthy habits of living and eating and to what extent such patients and overtly healthy persons are prepared to receive advice to take measures to prevent myocardial infarction.
  • (8) "If children are not exposed to sophisticated ads for unhealthy foods, parents will find it easier to encourage healthy eating and the whole country will benefit."
  • (9) Furthermore, children living in unhealthy surroundings become heavily exposed to common bacteria when breast-feeding stops, a circumstance deemed largely responsible for "weaning diarrhea."
  • (10) Juan Salgado, community leader creating a model for workforce development and training among immigrant communities through a holistic approach that addresses language skills, education and other barriers to entering the workforce Beth Stevens, neuroscientist revealing the heretofore unknown role of microglial cells in neuron communication and prompting a fundamental shift in thinking about brain development in both healthy and unhealthy states.
  • (11) "It seems to me that we have really got to look at the environment and make it easier for people either to make the healthy choice or – what we say less often is stop undermining their efforts by thrusting the unhealthy option into their line of sight," she said.
  • (12) I can think of hordes of politicians who look worse and "weirder", with wet little pouty-mouths, strange shiny skin, mad glaring eyes, deathly pale demeanour, blank gaze and an unhealthy quantity of fat (I can't name them, because it's rude to make personal remarks), and I don't hear anyone calling them "weird", or mocking their looks, except for the odd bold cartoonist, but when it comes to Miliband , it's be-as-rude-as-you-like time.
  • (13) "There is no single solution to childhood obesity but tougher restrictions on the way unhealthy foods are marketed to children are essential," said Griffiths, a former consumer affairs minister and former deputy leader of the Commons.
  • (14) Every second of them was single, thus prone to an unhealthy lifestyle and improper nutrition.
  • (15) These results indicate an increased risk of 'unhealthy' food habits in children of less-educated parents.
  • (16) He still has more than a year on his contract so it’s not a point of pressure that we want to be unhealthy.
  • (17) But the survey found 40% of teachers believed that packed lunches were unhealthy.
  • (18) In this paper, the author attempts to describe, through human ecology, the theoretical origins of healthy lifestyles in people of all societies followed by an exploration of how such lifestyles can be replaced by unhealthy ones.
  • (19) While it seems more liberal than using legislation to clamp down on unhealthy behaviour, it is actually more pernicious.
  • (20) As at the five other jails in Philadelphia, inmates and advocates have accused Curran-Fromhold of overcrowding, unhealthy conditions , inadequate mental health services and repeated infractions by guards.

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