What does "healthy" mean?

You're so healthy! She's so healthy! I wish I was healthier. We hear the term "healthy" all the time. Being "healthy" is subjective, to say the least. In our society, and especially within the health and wellness industry, "healthy" is often a lean person who does a lot of exercise and eats "clean". We see a thin, muscular, fit woman jogging down the street and most of us would automatically think "she's so healthy". We have a guest over for dinner who skips the bread, piles on the veggies, and sips water, and we think "Wow! They're so healthy!". But we really don't know anything about a person's health by judging their physical appearance or what's on (or absent from) their dinner plate. In fact, a person's health behaviours- like their food choices, exercise habits, smoking, alcohol consumption, etc - only accounts for around 30% of the person's overall health. Factors such as socioeconomic status are much greater predictors of health. Even if we only focused on the health behaviours, it's problematic to assume a person is or isn't healthy based on their looks or food choices. Assuming a person is healthy because they're thin and they load up on the veggies or skip the bread is a product of diet culture.