mindmap root((健康)) healthful implies a beneficial contribution to a healthy condition: ~ diet will provide more energy. healthy like healthful, applies to what promotes good health and vigor: a ~ climate. wholesome applies to what benefits, builds up, or sustains physically, mentally, or spiritually or to what is not detrimental to health or well-being: ~ foods; the movie is ~ family entertainment. salubrious applies chiefly to the helpful effects of climate or air that is devoid of harshness or extremes: the ~ climate of the American Southwest. salutary describes something corrective or beneficially effective, even though it may in itself be unpleasant: a ~ warning that resulted in increased production.